Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y3HLYFK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 146 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jimmy Patino is assistant professor of Chicano and Latino studies at the University of Minnesota.
The combination of increasing repression and Chicano activism gradually produced a new conception of ethnic and racial community that included both established Mexican Americans and new Mexican immigrants. In response, many San Diego activists rallied around the leadership of the small-scale print shop owner Herman Baca in the Chicano movement to empower Mexican Americans through Chicano self-determination. Ultimately, Patino tells the story of how Chicano/Mexicano politics articulated an "abolitionist" position on immigration--going beyond the agreed upon assumptions shared by liberals and conservatives alike that deportations are inherent to any solutions to the still burgeoning immigration debate.. As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing violence against ethnic Mexicans in San Diego's volatile border region. Here, Jimmy Patino narrates the rise of this Chicano/Mexicano consciousness and the dawning awareness that Mexican Americans and Mexicans would have to work together to fight border enforcement policies that subjected Latinos of all statuses to legal violence.By placing the Chicano and Latino civil rights struggle on explicitly transnational
In this powerful book, Patino complicates this narrative, telling the story of historic mobilizations of Chicana/os and Mexican immigrants in which people organized across their differences in national and legal status and in the process created a broader type of solidarity and shared identity.--Natalia Molina, author of How Race Is Made in AmericaThis fine work of history exemplifies strong archival and oral historical research, clear writing, and sound argumentation about topics of pressing importance. Patino provides a new foundation for future academic research, and his book will sharpen, frame, and animate conversations about the United States and Mexico in classrooms, living rooms, and think tanks in both countries.--Stephen