Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement (Haymarket Series on North American Politics and Culture) - Softcover

Carlos Munoz, Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860919137 ISBN 13: 9780860919131

Publisher: Verso, 1989

Synopsis

Youth, Identity, Power is a study of the origins and development of Chicano radicalism in America. Written by a leader of the Chicano Student Movement of the 1960s who also played a role in the creation of the wider Chicano Power Movement, this is the first fill-length work to appear on the subject. It fills an important gap in the history of political protest in the United States.

The author places the Chicano movement in the wider context of the political development of Mexicans and their descendants in the US, tracing the emergence of Chicano student activists in the 1930s and their initial challenge to the dominant racial and class ideologies of the time. Munoz then documents the rise and fall of the Chicano Power Movement, situating the student protests of the sixties within the changing political scene of the time, and assessing the movement’s contribution to the cultural development of the Chicano population as a whole. He concludes with an account of Chicano politics in the 1980s.

Youth, Identity, Power was named an Outstanding Book on Human Rights in the United States by the Gustavus Myers Center in 1990.

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From the Back Cover:

Named an Outstanding Book on Human Rights for 1990 by the Gustavus Myers Center

About the Author:

Carlos Muñoz, Jr. is a scholar-activist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founding chair of the first Chicano Studies Department in the nation and a founder of the National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0860919137
• ISBN 13: 9780860919131
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232