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This is the amazing untold story of the Los Angeles sanctuary movement's champion, Father Luis Olivares (1934-1993), a Catholic priest and a charismatic, faith-driven leader for social justice. Beginning in 1980 and continuing for most of the decade, hundreds of thousands of Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees made the hazardous journey to the United States, seeking asylum from political repression and violence in their home states. Instead of ...

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Offers a critical new path for Chicano and Latino history. Historian Mario T. García analyses prominent works of Chicano fiction, nonfiction, and autobiographical literature to explore how they can sometimes reveal even more about ordinary people's lives.

Raymond L. Telles was the first Mexican American mayor of a major US city. Elected mayor of El Paso in 1957 and serving for two terms, he went on to become the first Mexican American ambassador in US history. Historian Mario T. García brings Telles's remarkable story to life in this newly updated edition of his pioneering biography.

This is the amazing untold story of the Los Angeles sanctuary movement's champion, Father Luis Olivares (1934-1993), a Catholic priest and a charismatic, faith-driven leader for social justice. Based on previously unexplored archives and over ninety oral histories, this compelling biography traces the life of a complex and constantly evolving individual.

Though their population and influence are steadily rising, stereotypes and misconceptions about Latinos remain. By presenting thirteen riveting oral histories of young, first-generation college students, Mario T. Garcia counters long-held stereotypes and expands our understanding of what he terms "the Latino Generation”.

Latinos are already the largest minority group in the US, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino. However, stereotypes about Latinos remain, from the assumption that they refuse to learn English to questions of just how "American" they actually are. By presenting thirteen riveting oral histories of young, first-generation college students, Mario T. García counters these stereotypes and expands our...

The largest social movement by people of Mexican descent in the U.S. to date, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s linked civil rights activism with a new, assertive ethnic identity: Chicano Power! Beginning with the farmworkers' struggle led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, the Movement expanded to urban areas throughout the Southwest, Midwest and Pacific Northwest, as a generation of self-proclaimed Chicanos fought to empower their c...

The largest social movement by people of Mexican descent in the U.S. to date, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s linked civil rights activism with a new, assertive ethnic identity: Chicano Power! Beginning with the farmworkers' struggle led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, the Movement expanded to urban areas throughout the Southwest, Midwest and Pacific Northwest, as a generation of self-proclaimed Chicanos fought to empower their c...

Best known as the leader of the farm workers' struggle and of the Latino civil rights movement, Ch vez, like Ghandi and Dr. Martin Luther King, was a deeply religious figure whose faith and spirituality guided his public life. The Gospel of C sar Ch vez uses the prolific leader's own words to bring attention to his profound faith and the way this faith shaped his leadership.

In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education. During these walkouts, or "blowouts”, the students were led by Sal Castro, a charismatic Mexican American teacher who encouraged the students to make their grievances public. This fascinating oral history is a compelling narrative of a young boy growing up in Los Angeles ...

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The book is a major contribution- the product of serious research, competently written, and almost entirely free of partisan emotion.' -C.L. Sonnichsen, Journal of Arizona History

Desde la aparición de la computadora, una revolución tecnológica está cambiando la manera de actuar de la sociedad. El inicio de esta revolución ha marcado tres eras claves en la historia de la computación. 1) La era de los mainframes, 2) La era de la computadora personal y 3) la era del cómputo ubicuo. Los mainframes estaban frente a nosotros, la computadora personal a nuestro lado y los dispositivos móviles en el cómputo ubicuo inmersos en a...

Offers a critical new path for Chicano and Latino history. Historian Mario T. García analyses prominent works of Chicano fiction, nonfiction, and autobiographical literature to explore how they can sometimes reveal even more about ordinary people's lives. García argues that this approach can yield personal insights into historical events that more formal documents omit.

Chicano Catholicism--both as a popular religion and a foundation for community organizing--has, over the past century, inspired Chicano resistance to external forces of oppression and discrimination including from other non-Mexican Catholics and even the institutionalized church. Chicano Catholics have also used their faith to assert their particular identity and establish a kind of cultural citizenship. Based exclusively on original research ...

This is the first book to focus on the life of labor and social justice advocate Dolores Huerta through her own writings, articles about her, and a recent interview with editor Mario Garcia.

An oral history one of the first senior scholars to recognise the viability and importance of Chicano literature