Description
Book SynopsisA multi-chapter book that examines the FBI files on two well known persons of Mexican origin, Luisa Moreno and Ernesto Galarza; four Chicanos, Ambassador Raymond Telles and his wife Delfina Navarro, Francisco "Pancho" Medrano, Freddy Fender; two organizations, the Texas Farm Workers Union and teh American G.I. Forum; and, one event, the Zoot Suit police riots in Los Angeles, California during the 1940s.
Trade Review“In this well-researched and detailed book, José Angel Gutiérrez, as a scholar and a fearless leader for decades on behalf of Chicanas and Chicanos in the U.S., does an excellent job in exposing the civil/human rights abuses of the American government in general and oppressive FBI apparatus in particular against los de abajo. As a self-described Chicano militant, the author exposes a contradiction of the FBI’s racist surveillance against brown people, where the gaze of Big Brother doesn’t differentiate in spying on righteous militants, aspiring for radical/structural transformations, versus moderate Mexican Americans and groups, seeking reformist changes.” -- Alvaro Huerta, California State Polytechnic University
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Luisa Moreno, The Guatemalan Mexican
Chapter 2: Ernesto Galarza, the first Chicano Activist Scholar
Chapter 3: Ramón “Raymond” Telles, First Chicano Ambassador of the United States, and his wife, Delfina Navarro
Chapter 4: Salvador Buruel Castro of the Los Angeles School District Student Walkouts of 1968
Chapter 5: Balde from San Benito, Texas aka Freddy Fender
Chapter 6: Francisco “Pancho” Medrano
Chapter 7: The American G. I. Forum and Joe Molina’s Case
Chapter 8: The Border Coverage Program, the U.S. Intervention in Mexico’s Internal Affairs
