Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981 (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)
By David Montejano.
Description
Winner, NACCS-Tejas Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco , 2011NACCS Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 2012In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang warfare broke out regularly. Then the striking farmworkers of South Texas marched through the city and set off a social movement that transformed the barrios and...
ISBN(s)
0292722907, 9780292722903
