"¡Mi Raza Primero!" (My People First!): Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978

Contents

List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: “Those Times of Revolution” 1 1. “A Movable Object Meeting an Irresistible Force”: 9 Los Angeles’s Ethnic Mexican Community in the 1950s and Early 1960s 2. “Birth of A New Symbol”: The Brown Berets 42 3. “Chale No, We Won’t Go!”: The Chicano Moratorium 61 Committee 4. “The Voice of the Chicano People”: La Raza Unida Party 80 5. “Un Pueblo Sin Fronteras”: The Centro de Acción Social 98 Autónomo (CASA) Afterword: “Why Are We Not Marching Like in the ’70s?” 117 Notes 121 Bibliography 149 Index 159 Contents This page intentionally left blank ...