Based on articles written for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, author Richard J. Gonzales draws onhis educational, inner-city, and professional lifeexperiences to weave eyewitness testimony intoissues facing Chicanos, including economic, health,education, criminal justice, politics, immigration,and cultural issues. Raza Rising presents a personalrecounting of a Chicano's struggle with andunderstanding of the socio-economic policies andhistorical actions that impact their ascendancy. RazaRising offers first-hand observations, supported bywell-documented scholarly research, of Chicanos'growth and subsequent struggles to participate fullyin North Texas' political and economic life. Raza Rising takes the reader to the organization ofan immigration reform march, to the actual marchwith 20,000 people, to a protest demonstration ofthe City of Farmers Branch's attempt to prohibitrenting to the undocumented immigrant, to theauthor's awakening in Chicago on the importance oflearning, and to his poignant experience as a guestspeaker in a Fort Worth public school classroom.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Texas Press,U.S.
ISBN-13
9781574416329
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221960888
Product Key Features
Author
Richard J. Gonzales
Publication Name
Raza Rising: Chicanos in North Texas
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences, Transportation, History
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Richard J. Gonzales
Series Title
Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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