Part 1 Foreword by Peter McLaren Part 2 Prologue by Carlos Ovando Part 3 Introduction: Latino/as in the West Chapter 4 The L.A. Rebellion of 1992 and Students Walk Outs Chapter 5 The Chicano/a Movement Chapter 6 University Restructuring and Academic Labor Chapter 7 Inside the Tents for Chicana/o Studies Chapter 8 Chicano/as and Latino/as: Culture, Nation or Class? Chapter 9 The Latina/o mobilization of 2006
Carlos Mora-Ninci was professor of sociology at the University of Cordoba (Argentina) and Principal Investigator at the Paulo Freire Institute.
Latinos in the West arrives at a precipitous time when our
understanding of the important historical and revolutionary role of
Latino/as in our country needs to be deepened and appreciated. If
democracy and social justice are to arrive in the United States,
the nation must take account of the leadership role of the Latino/a
populations, and not just those within the United States, but also
those that are mobilizing south of 'la linea.'
*Peter McLaren, Honorary Chair Professor and Director of the Center
for Critical Studies, Northeast Normal University, China*
In Latinos in the West, students, teachers, researchers, policy
makers, and school leaders will find a well-researched and clearly
articulated account of the role played by Latino/a student
activists in defense of higher education visà-vis larger
sociopolitical dynamics in the United States. Carlos Mora has
exposed the causes that produce tension and anxiety between the
Latino/a community, higher education, and sectors of the dominant
society, and it is time to pay attention to his reasonable
recommendations for a more smoothly intertwined world.
*Carlos J. Ovando*
To my knowledge, this is the first detailed and systematic
chronicle and analysis of the Chicano/a social movement that
developed at UCLA and sparked attention throughout California and
the United States. As as result of this Movement, the quality of
scholarship on Chicano/a Studies have increased dramatically both
in quality and quantity, and Chicano/a Studies are now being
accepted as bonafide Department in key US Universities, a long
overdue process. Carlos Mora Ninci offers a fresh, articulated and
insightful perspective on the history of Chicano/a struggles in the
United States, and the UCLA movement, and a wonderful and
refreshing as well as hopeful landscape for the educational future
of people of color in the United States. A must to read...
*Carlos Alberto Torres, director, Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA*
Finally, a book that in pursuing a faithful recording of the role
played by Chicano youth in bringing about a change in the contents
of higher learning in the US west, accomplishes the feat of belying
a long-standing stereotype: that of inaction on the part of the
descendents of Mexicans. An added plus, for those who teach
American Studies, is the section dedicated to understanding the
current plight of undocumented foreigners and the strategies the
latter have adopted to demonstrate their adherence to the values
the United States stands for...
*Sheila Carmody, professor emeritus of American Studies, National
University of Córdoba, Argentina*
This study makes excellent use of personal interviews, the records
of Chicano activist groups, student revolutionary pamphlets,
newspapers, fieldwork narratives of the Chicano studies strikes,
contemporary journals, and a wealth of secondary scholarship
relating to higher education.
*Southern California Quarterly*
This excellent work of history and sociology describes the growth
of the Chicano/a movement along with the equally important growth
of the rapidly changing immigrant societies in the US. Mora has
produced an insightful and richly detailed history of labor,
students, and political movements all brought together in one book
that should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand
the emerging majority population in the Southwestern US.
*Duane E. Campbell, California State University, Sacramento*
To my knowledge, this is the first detailed and systematic
chronicle and analysis of the Chicano/a social movement that
developed at UCLA and sparked attention throughout California and
the United States. As as result of this Movement, the quality of
scholarship on Chicano/a Studies have increased dramatically both
in quality and quantity, and Chicano/a Studies are now being
accepted as bonafide Department in key US Universities, a long
overdue process. Carlos Mora Ninci offers a fresh, articulated and
insightful perspective on the history of Chicano/a struggles in the
United States, and the UCLA movement, and a
wonderful and refreshing as well as hopeful landscape for the
educational future of people of color in the United States. A must
to read.
*Carlos Alberto Torres, director, Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA*
Finally, a book that in pursuing a faithful recording of the role
played by Chicano youth in bringing about a change in the contents
of higher learning in the US west, accomplishes the feat of belying
a long-standing stereotype: that of inaction on the part of the
descendents of Mexicans. An added plus, for those who teach
American Studies, is the section dedicated to understanding the
current plight of undocumented foreigners and the strategies the
latter have adopted to demonstrate their adherence to the values
the United States stands for.
*Sheila Carmody, professor emeritus of American Studies, National
University of Córdoba, Argentina*
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