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Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981

Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981

Montejano, David

Paperback

Series: Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture (Paperback), Book 26

20th Century United States HistoryLatino StudiesRegional: West

ISBN10: 0292722907
ISBN13: 9780292722903
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Jul 1 2010
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Winner, NACCS-Tejas Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Tejas Foco, 2011
NACCS Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 2012

In 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 ultimately brought down the old Anglo oligarchy. In Quixote's Soldiers, David Montejano uses a wealth of previously untapped sources, including the congressional papers of Henry B. Gonzalez, to present an intriguing and highly readable account of this turbulent period.

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