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Bringing to life the stories of political teatristas, feminists, gunrunners, labor organizers, poets, journalists, ex-prisoners, and other revolutionaries, The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico examines the inspiration Chicanas/os found in social movements in Mexico and Latin America from 1971 to 1979. Drawing on fifteen years of interviews and archival research, including examinations of declassified government documents from Mexico, this study uncovers encounters between activists and artists across borders while sharing a socialist-oriented, anticapitalist vision. In discussions ranging from the Nuevo Teatro Popular movement across Latin America to the Revolutionary Proletariat Party of America in Mexico and the Peronista Youth organizers in Argentina, Alan Eladio Gómez brings to light the transnational nature of leftist organizing by people of Mexican descent in the United States, tracing an array of festivals, assemblies, labor strikes, clandestine organizations, and public protests linked to an international movement of solidarity against imperialism. Taking its title from the “greater Mexico” designation used by Américo Paredes to describe the present and historical movement of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Chicanas/os back and forth across the US-Mexico border, this book analyzes the radical creativity and global justice that animated “Greater Mexico” leftists during a pivotal decade. While not all the participants were of one mind politically or personally, they nonetheless shared an international solidarity that was enacted in local arenas, giving voice to a political and cultural imaginary that circulated throughout a broad geographic terrain while forging multifaceted identities. The epilogue considers the politics of going beyond solidarity.

Chicano movement. --- Social movements --- Solidarity --- Radicalism --- Mexican Americans --- Political aspects --- Politics and government --- History --- Latin America --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Political science --- Cooperation --- Brown power movement (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Chicano civil rights movement --- Chicano movement --- El Movimiento (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Mexican-American civil rights movement --- Movimiento, El (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Civil rights movements

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Argues that the women most crucial to the liberation movement in the 1960s were responding to their treatment in the civil rights and New Left movements.

Civil Rights Movement. --- Civil rights movements --- Feminism --- Feminisme. --- Radicalism --- Women --- Social conditions.

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Mexican Americans --- School integration --- Discrimination in education --- Chicano movement --- Brown power movement (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Chicano civil rights movement --- El Movimiento (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Mexican-American civil rights movement --- Movimiento, El (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Civil rights movements --- Educational discrimination --- Race discrimination in education --- Education --- Affirmative action programs in education --- Segregation in education --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Desegregation in education --- Integration in education --- School desegregation --- Magnet schools --- Race relations in school management --- History --- Social conditions --- Integration

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In The Chicano Generation, veteran Chicano civil rights scholar Mario T. García provides a rare look inside the struggles of the 1960's and 1970's as they unfolded in Los Angeles. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with three key activists, this book illuminates the lives of Raul Ruiz, Gloria Arellanes, and Rosalio Muñoz-their family histories and widely divergent backgrounds; the events surrounding their growing consciousness as Chicanos; the sexism encountered by Arellanes; and the aftermath of their political histories. In his substantial introduction, García situates the Chicano movement in Los Angeles and contextualizes activism within the largest civil rights and empowerment struggle by Mexican Americans in US history-a struggle that featured César Chávez and the farm workers, the student movement highlighted by the 1968 LA school blowouts, the Chicano antiwar movement, the organization of La Raza Unida Party, the Chicana feminist movement, the organizing of undocumented workers, and the Chicano Renaissance.  Weaving this revolution against a backdrop of historic Mexican American activism from the 1930's to the 1960's and the contemporary black power and black civil rights movements, García gives readers the best representations of the Chicano generation in Los Angeles.

Chicano movement --- Brown power movement (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Chicano civil rights movement --- El Movimiento (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Mexican-American civil rights movement --- Movimiento, El (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Civil rights movements --- Ruiz, Raul, --- Arellanes, Gloria, --- Muñoz, Rosalio, --- 1960s los angeles. --- 1968 la school. --- 1970s los angeles. --- black berets. --- cesar chavez. --- chicano antiwar movement. --- chicano family. --- chicano farmworkers. --- chicano feminism. --- chicano history. --- chicano lit. --- chicano movement. --- chicano studies. --- civil rights movement. --- ethnic studies. --- gloria arellanes. --- hispanic american studies. --- la raza unida. --- latin american studies. --- mexican american activism. --- mexican american history. --- mexican american lit. --- raul ruiz. --- rosalio munoz. --- southwest us history.

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How do people acquire political consciousness, and how does that consciousness transform their behavior? This question launched the scholarly career of David Montejano, whose masterful explorations of the Mexican American experience produced the award-winning books Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986, a sweeping outline of the changing relations between the two peoples, and Quixote’s Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981, a concentrated look at how a social movement “from below” began to sweep away the last vestiges of the segregated social-political order in San Antonio and South Texas. Now in Sancho’s Journal, Montejano revisits the experience that set him on his scholarly quest—“hanging out” as a participant-observer with the South Side Berets of San Antonio as the chapter formed in 1974. Sancho’s Journal presents a rich ethnography of daily life among the “batos locos” (crazy guys) as they joined the Brown Berets and became associated with the greater Chicano movement. Montejano describes the motivations that brought young men into the group and shows how they learned to link their individual troubles with the larger issues of social inequality and discrimination that the movement sought to redress. He also recounts his own journey as a scholar who came to realize that, before he could tell this street-level story, he had to understand the larger history of Mexican Americans and their struggle for a place in U.S. society. Sancho’s Journal completes that epic story.

Mexican Americans --- Chicano movement --- History --- Politics and government --- San Antonio (Tex.) --- Race relations --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Brown power movement (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Chicano civil rights movement --- El Movimiento (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Mexican-American civil rights movement --- Movimiento, El (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Civil rights movements --- Villa de San Fernando (Tex.) --- Villa Capital de San Fernando (Tex.) --- San Antonio de Béjar (Tex.) --- San Fernando de Béjar (Tex.) --- San Antonio de Béxar (Tex.) --- Béxar (Tex.) --- Béxar (Mexico) --- San Antonio de Béxar (Mexico) --- San Antonio de Béjar (Mexico)