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By Lorena Oropeza

ISBN-10: 0520225112

ISBN-13: 9780520225114

ISBN-10: 0520241959

ISBN-13: 9780520241954

ISBN-10: 1417585129

ISBN-13: 9781417585120

This incisive and skillfully written exam of Chicano antiwar mobilization demonstrates how the pivotal adventure of activism in the course of the Viet Nam battle period performed itself out between Mexican americans. ?Raza S?! ?Guerra No! provides a fascinating portrait of Chicano protest and patriotism. On a deeper point, the ebook considers higher subject matters of yank nationalism and citizenship and the function of minorities within the army carrier, subject matters that stay pertinent this day. Lorena Oropeza's exploration of the evolution, political trajectory, and eventual implosion of the Chicano crusade opposed to the struggle in Viet Nam contains a attention-grabbing meditation on Mexican americans' political and cultural orientations, loyalties, and feel of prestige and position in American society.

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The solution, according to the organization, was to encourage Mexican Americans to define and assert themselves as equals by claiming their full rights as citizens. League members also argued that once Mexican Americans did so they would be in a better position to help their immigrant cousins. Still, the decision to exclude non-citizens from membership illustrated how LULAC members negotiated the anti-immigrant backlash of the 1920s. 31 In particular, LULAC members vigorously shielded themselves from any hint of labor radicalism.

44 While harsh, Weeks’s assessment mirrored LULAC’s assumptions. Inevitably, however, a strategy that targeted Mexican American “deficiencies,” to borrow Weeks’s term, minimized the role Anglo Americans A Tradition of Mexican American Activism 21 played in maintaining the Southwest’s system of political and social inequality. The strategy also ignored the fundamental problem of racial bias. After all, signs that read “No Mexicans” hardly meant that acculturated Mexican Americans were welcome. Although the organization sometimes pursued boycotts of local businesses, LULAC’s primary hope was that, gradually, through ethnic uplift and assimilation, such signs might become less prevalent.

Claiming american citizenship On the Fourth of July, 1941, the residents of Lockhart, Texas, were enjoying an outdoor celebration in honor of the nation’s birthday. Sev- 14 “To Be Better and More Loyal Citizens” eral city blocks had been roped off to make way for a big band and dance along the town’s main street. Late that evening, the bandleader came to the microphone. “I have been asked to make this announcement,” he said. ” The crowd’s response was overwhelming approval. Listeners who were not “Spanish” applauded and cheered.

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