Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Intellectuals and Ethnic Consciousness
7. 1 José de la Luz Sáenz 24
8. 2 Alice Dickerson Montemayor 56
9. 3 Alonso S. Perales 84
10. 4 Jovita González Mireles 118
11. 5 Of Poetics and Politics 140
12. 6 Separate Tejano/Texan Worlds 162
13. Legal, Political, and Labor Activists
14. 7 Dr. Héctor Pérez García 190
15. 8 “I Can See No Alternative Except to Battle It Out in Court” 208
16. 9 Mr. Lulac 228
17. 10 Vicente Ximenes and LBJ’s Great Society 252
18. 11 Ralph Estrada and the War against Racial Prejudice in Arizona 276
19. 12 “Vale más la revolución que viene” 300
20. 13 Edward R. Roybal 324
21. Conclusion 345
22. Contributors 349
23. Index 355