Illustrations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: “Those Times of Revolution” 1
6. 1. “A Movable Object Meeting an Irresistible Force”: Los Angeles’s Ethnic Mexican Community in the 1950s and Early 1960s 9
7. 2. “Birth of A New Symbol”: The Brown Berets 42
8. 3. “Chale No, We Won’t Go!”: The Chicano Moratorium Committee 61
9. 4. “The Voice of the Chicano People”: La Raza Unida Party 80
10. 5. “Un Pueblo Sin Fronteras”: The Centro de Acción Social Autónomo (CASA) 98
11. Afterword: “Why Are We Not Marching Like in the ’70s?” 117
12. Notes 121
13. Bibliography 149
14. Index 159