Occupied America: The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation

by Rodolfo F. Acuña

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Occupied America: The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation, by Acuna, Rodolfo This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006380350X
• ISBN13: 9780063803503
• Release Date: January 1900
• Publisher: Canfield Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.

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Occupied America

Occupied America has evolved from my belief that the history of Chicanos in the United States must be reexamined. My framework has been the Chicano's struggle for liberation, for being a Chicano myself, I have experienced the inequities of this supposedly democratic society; I have seen that people of Mexican extraction in the United States are, in a very real sense, captives of a system that renders them second-class citizens. As a historian, I wanted to know what has happened in the last 124 years that has kept Chicanos at the short end of the proverbial stick. Traditional explanation of racism, nativism, and economic exploitation provided only a partial answer, in my opinion. Other groups have been the victims of such forces, but - with the obvious exceptions of the Indians and the Blacks - they have managed to achieve a degree of acceptance and self-determination far greater than that of Chicanos.... I have divided the material into two parts. The first concentrates primarily on the nineteenth century and the U.S. conquest of the Southwest, with separate chapters devoted to the four major states of the ares. The second part centers around the experiences of Chicanos in the twentieth century, beginning with attempts to restrict Mexican immigration and continuing to the 1970s and the growth of the movement.