The Chicano Treatise / Edition 1

by Julián Segura Camacho

Overview

Mexicans are simultaneously the largest minority in the United States and the forgotten native in the Black and White World of the Southwest, specifically Northern Mexico. The Chicano Treatise is an initialization at reclaiming a lost spirit that has lingered for almost five centuries since Spain's conquest of Mexico.

This work, more than just history, is a treatise on gender relationships, families, and failures of the Chicano liberation movement. Chicanos are implicitly tied to their ancestral homeland geographically, demographically, culturally, and historically. Mexican influence in the United States is much greater than has been recognized academically or politically in the past. With an open cultural identity emerging, a new hope for reclaiming a lost past is alive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761829232
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	08/29/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	90
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Julián Segura Camacho is a lecturer at California State University, Dominquez Hills and California State University, Long Beach. Camacho holds an M.A. in History and Geography of Latin America from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Mestizo: An Apology for Being Indio Chapter 3 The Greatest Fabrication: La Virgen de Guadalupe Chapter 4 The Myth of Machismo Chapter 5 The Pimpification of Mexico's Export Labor Class: Mexican Workers in the US are Prostituted for Mexico's Elite Chapter 6 The False Illusion of the Chicano/Mexicano Family Chapter 7 The Generational Divide: Chicano Movement Armchair Revolutionaries Way War on New Bucks Chapter 8 The Betrayal Chapter 9 The Honest Truth about Sexual Prowess: Chicanos and Chicanas are Alike Chapter 10 An Alternative Home: Non-Mexicans Finding Acceptance Among Mexicans Chapter 11 Afterthought Chapter 12 Notes