Becoming La Raza – Negotiating Race in the Chican@ Movement(s) Izaguirre Iii

Becoming La RazaNegotiating Race in the Chican@ Movement(s)\nAuthor(s): Jos G. Izaguirre III\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271098760, 978-0271098760\nSynopsis\nIn 1965, striking farm workers in the San Joaquin Valley sparked the beginning of the Chican@ movement. As the movement quickly gained traction across the southwestern United States, public frictions and splits emerged among activists over strategic political decisions. Jos G. Izaguirre III explores how these disagreements often hinged on the establishment of a racial(ized) identity for Mexican Americans, leading to the formation of La Raza Unida, a political party dedicated to naming and defending Mexican Americans as a racialized community.\n\nThrough close readings of figures, vocabularies, and visualizations of iconic texts of the Chican@ Movementincluding El Plan de Delano, Rodolfo Corky Gonzaless I Am Joaquin, .