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Examines the Chicano movement's development in Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. This book focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: the Brown Berets, the Chicano Moratorium Committee, La Raza Unida Party, and the Centro de Accion Social Autonomo.

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Acknowledgments Introduction: "Those Times of Revolution" 1. "A Movable Object Meeting an Irresistible Force": Los Angeles's Ethnic Mexican Community in the 1950s and Early 1960s 2. "Birth of A New Symbol": The Brown Berets 3. "Chale No, We Won't Go!": The Chicano Moratorium Committee 4. "The Voice of the Chicano People": La Raza Unida Party 5. "Un Pueblo Sin Fronteras": The Centro de Accion Social Autonomo (CASA) Afterword: "Why Are We Not Marching Like in the '70s?" Notes Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 24/10/2002
      ISBN13: 9780520230187, 978-0520230187
      ISBN10: 0520230183
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      History of the Americas Social and cultural history Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines the Chicano movement's development in Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. This book focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: the Brown Berets, the Chicano Moratorium Committee, La Raza Unida Party, and the Centro de Accion Social Autonomo.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction: "Those Times of Revolution" 1. "A Movable Object Meeting an Irresistible Force": Los Angeles's Ethnic Mexican Community in the 1950s and Early 1960s 2. "Birth of A New Symbol": The Brown Berets 3. "Chale No, We Won't Go!": The Chicano Moratorium Committee 4. "The Voice of the Chicano People": La Raza Unida Party 5. "Un Pueblo Sin Fronteras": The Centro de Accion Social Autonomo (CASA) Afterword: "Why Are We Not Marching Like in the '70s?" Notes Bibliography Index

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