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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNavarro's lifetime activist experience in Chicano/Latino right movements enlivens the text with rare insight, personal reflections, and primary source material from his own meeting notes. Recommended. * CHOICE, November 2009 *
Armando Navarro has written a most needed and valuable study of the historical origins of Mexican migration to the United States and its continuing importance. This is a must-read for both concerned citizens and policy makers. -- Mario T. Garcia, University of California at Santa Barbara; author of Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920
Navarro skillfully captures the tensions caused by the changing America….The book's greatest value is its encyclopedic quality. It will be reference by scholars of Chicano/a studies and the growing field of immigration studies. * Western Historical Quarterly, Fall 2010 *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: The Immigration Crisis Chapter 3 Chapter One: Exodus to the New World (40,000 B.C. - 1930s) Chapter 4 Chapter Two: Re-Mexicanization of Aztlán (1848-1940) Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Re-Start of the Migrant Exodus (1942-1964) Chapter 6 Chapter Four: Third Phase of the Migrant Exodus (1965-1989) Chapter 7 Chapter Five: Fourth Phase of the Migrant Exodus (1990-1999) Chapter 8 Chapter Six: Rise of Nativist Vigilantes and Militias (1999-2004) Chapter 9 Chapter Seven: The Minutemen Project (2005-2007) Chapter 10 Chapter Eight: Nativist Anti-Immigrant Hate Groups On Rise (2005-2007) Chapter 11 Chapter Nine: Mexicanos Respond to the Rancher Vigilante and Militia Crisis (2000-2005) Chapter 12 Chapter Ten: NAHR's Response to the Raids &Minutemen Project (2004-2005) Chapter 13 Chapter Eleven: Rise of the Nativist Legislative Surge (2004-2007) Chapter 14 Chapter Twelve: Rise of the Movimiento Pro-Migrante (2006) Chapter 15 Chapter Thirteen: Decline of MPM and its Mobilizations (2006-2007) Chapter 16 Epilogue: The Immigration Crisis: What Now?
