A pioneering political and intellectual history of the Chicano leaders who emerged from the barrios of the Southwest between 1930 and 1960--Ignacio L.
L pez, George I.
Sanchez, Josefina Fierro de Bright, and others--and of their effort to capture first-class citizenship for Mexican Americans.
Drawing extensively on archival material and oral history, Mario T.
Garc a discusses the key figures, organizations, and issues of the movement; in so doing he casts new light not only on Chicano history but also on the histories of American ethnicity and civil rights movements.
Yale University Press Mexican americans: leadership, ideology, and identity, 1930-1960, paperback/mario t. garcia
