As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing violence against ethnic Mexicans in San Diego's volatile border region. In response, many San Diego activists rallied around the leadership of the small-scale print shop owner Herman Baca in the Chicano movement to empower Mexican Americans through Chicano self-determination. The combination of increasing repression and Chicano activism gradually produced a new conception of ethnic and racial community that included both established Mexican Americans and new Mexican immigrants. Here, Jimmy Patino narrates the rise of this Chicano/Mexicano consciousness and the dawning awareness that Mexican Americans and Mexicans would have to work together to fight border enforcement policies that subjected Latinos of all statuses to legal violence.

By placing the Chicano and Latino civil rights struggle on explicitly transnational terrain, Patino fundamentally reorients the understanding of the Chicano movement. Ultimately, Patino tells the story of how Chicano/Mexicano politics articulated an "abolitionist" position on immigration--going beyond the agreed upon assumptions shared by liberals and conservatives alike that deportations are inherent to any solutions to the still burgeoning immigration debate.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	356
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	University of North Carolina Press
Fecha de Publicación	2017-11-13
Dimensiones	9.06" x 6.69" x 0.9" pulgadas
Serie	Justice, Power, and Politics
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	Si
Temas	Años 1970, Años 1980, California, San Diego, California, Chicano, Hispano, California del Sur, Oeste de EE.UU., Costa Oeste

Patiño, Jimmy

Jimmy Patino is assistant professor of Chicano and Latino studies at the University of Minnesota.