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A comprehensive approach to the study of the Chicano population of the United States.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Defining Community
Reviewing the Literature
Methodology and the Study of Racial and Ethnic Communities
Entering the Field and Gathering Data
Analyzing and Creating Social Space
Chicana Feminist Studies
Liberation of the Chicano Community
Linking Theory to Practice
Contemporary Issues
Healing a Nation
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

IRENE ISABEL BLEA is the chairperson of the Department of Chicano Studies at California State University in Los Angeles. Blea received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado and has been affiliated with the University of New Mexico, University of Texas at Austin, and Metropolitan State College of Denver. Her previous books include La Chicana and the Intersection of Race, Class and Gender(Praeger, 1991), Bessemer: A Sociological Perspective of a Chicano Barrio(1991), and Toward A Chicano Social Science (Praeger, 1988).

Reviews

?Blea's work is significant because she is one of the first Chicanas or Chicanos who have raised apparently obvious questions that could be explored in more depth, but have been ignored. Blea deals with identity, as well as the usual sociological exercise of reviewing the literature, methodology, how to enter Chicano/a studies, how to analyze the field, Chicana feminist studies, and linking theory to practice. Discussion of these fundamental topics makes the book vaulable in understanding work on Chicanas/os...General readers; undergraduates.?-Choice

?Commendations to Praeger for publishing this unconventional text...Blea has written a guide that students with any racial or ethnic identity, feminists or not, should welcome....Analysis should lead to critical thinking, reconsiliation, the betterment of communities, and the healing of the nation.?-MultiCultural Review

"Commendations to Praeger for publishing this unconventional text...Blea has written a guide that students with any racial or ethnic identity, feminists or not, should welcome....Analysis should lead to critical thinking, reconsiliation, the betterment of communities, and the healing of the nation."-MultiCultural Review

"Blea's work is significant because she is one of the first Chicanas or Chicanos who have raised apparently obvious questions that could be explored in more depth, but have been ignored. Blea deals with identity, as well as the usual sociological exercise of reviewing the literature, methodology, how to enter Chicano/a studies, how to analyze the field, Chicana feminist studies, and linking theory to practice. Discussion of these fundamental topics makes the book vaulable in understanding work on Chicanas/os...General readers; undergraduates."-Choice