A multi-chapter book that examines the FBI files on two well known persons of Mexican origin, Luisa Moreno and Ernesto Galarza; four Chicanos, Ambassador Raymond Telles and his wife Delfina Navarro, Francisco "Pancho" Medrano, Freddy Fender; two organizations, the Texas Farm Workers Union and teh American G.I. Forum; and, one event, the Zoot Suit police riots in Los Angeles, California during the 1940s.
Autorentext
José Angel Gutiérrez is emeritus professor of political science ate University of Texas in Arlington.
Inhalt
Chapter 1: Luisa Moreno, The Guatemalan Mexican
Chapter 2: Ernesto Galarza, the first Chicano Activist Scholar
Chapter 3: Ramón "Raymond" Telles, First Chicano Ambassador of the United States, and his wife, Delfina Navarro
Chapter 4: Salvador Buruel Castro of the Los Angeles School District Student Walkouts of 1968
Chapter 5: Balde from San Benito, Texas aka Freddy Fender
Chapter 6: Francisco "Pancho" Medrano
Chapter 7: The American G. I. Forum and Joe Molina's Case
Chapter 8: The Border Coverage Program, the U.S. Intervention in Mexico's Internal Affairs