Latino Social Movements: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415922999 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 216 str.

Rodolfo D. Torres; George N. Katsiaficas

Opis

Focusing on the place of labour, class, patriarchy and capital, this collection relates these objective realities with the subjective context of popular attempts to transform the existing socio-economic conditions of Latino life.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION, Rodolfo D. Torres, George Katsiaficas; Chapter 2 Anti-Colonial Chicana Feminism, Teresa Córdova; Chapter 3 Lessons from el Barrio—The East Harlem Real Great Society/Urban Planning Studio: A Puerto Rican Chapter in the Fight for Urban Self-Determination, Luis Aponte-Parés; Chapter 4 Boricuas, African Americans, and Chicanos in the Far West: Notes on the Puerto Rican Pro-Independence Movement in California, 1960s–1980s1, Victor M. Rodriguez; Chapter 5 The 1933 Los Angeles County Farm Workers Strike, Gilbert G. González; Chapter 6 Latino Immigrant Workers in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry, Edna Bonacich; Chapter 7 Latino Politics—Class Struggles: Reflections on the Future of Latino Politics, Martha E. Gimenez; Chapter 8 The Cloning of La Raza Unida Part y for the Twenty-first Century: Electoral Pragmatism or Misguided Nostalgia?, Richard Santillan;

O autorze

Rodolfo D. Torres is Professor of Chicano Studies and Public Policy at California State University, Long Beach and Visiting Professor of Education and Social Policy at the University of California, Irvine. He is co-editor of Latinos and Education (Routledge, 1997) and New American Destinies (Routledge, 1996), and co-author of Latino Metropolis (forthcoming 199x). George Katsiaficas is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wentworth Institute of Technology and Editor of the New Political Science journal. He is author of The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life.