Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego

by Jimmy Patino

Book Overview

As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing violence against ethnic Mexicans in San Diego's volatile border region. In response, many San Diego activists rallied around the leadership of the small-scale print shop owner Herman Baca in the Chicano movement to empower Mexican Americans through Chicano self-determination. The combination of increasing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469635569
• ISBN13: 9781469635569
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.1"