Imagining the Mexican Immigrant Worker: (Inter)Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles.

Chavez, Ernesto

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ERIC Number: EJ622045

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Publication Date: 2000

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Imagining the Mexican Immigrant Worker: (Inter)Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles.

Chavez, Ernesto

Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v25 n2 p109-35 Fall 2000

Traces the history of two organizations of the 1970s Chicano Movement: the Committee to Free Los Tres and the Centro de Accion Social Autonomo (CASA). Discusses their Marxist ideology, notion of Chicano cultural nationalism, involvement of college students and other youth, campaigns supporting immigrant workers' rights and affirmative action at universities, and reasons for their demise. (Contains 60 references.) (SV)

Descriptors: Activism, Affirmative Action, College Students, Cultural Images, Ethnicity, Group Unity, Higher Education, Ideology, Marxian Analysis, Mexican Americans, Migrant Workers, Organizations (Groups), Social History, Undocumented Immigrants

Publication Type: Historical Materials; Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: California (Los Angeles)

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