FBI Files on Mexicans and Chicanos, 1940–1980
The Eagle Is Watching
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Lexington Books
Published:15th Feb '21
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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- Paperback£35.00(9781793624550)
A multi-chapter book that examines the FBI files on two well known persons of Mexican origin, Luisa Moreno and Ernesto Galarza; four Chicanos, Ambassador Raymond Telles and his wife Delfina Navarro, Francisco "Pancho" Medrano, Freddy Fender; two organizations, the Texas Farm Workers Union and teh American G.I. Forum; and, one event, the Zoot Suit police riots in Los Angeles, California during the 1940s.
“In this well-researched and detailed book, José Angel Gutiérrez, as a scholar and a fearless leader for decades on behalf of Chicanas and Chicanos in the U.S., does an excellent job in exposing the civil/human rights abuses of the American government in general and oppressive FBI apparatus in particular against los de abajo. As a self-described Chicano militant, the author exposes a contradiction of the FBI’s racist surveillance against brown people, where the gaze of Big Brother doesn’t differentiate in spying on righteous militants, aspiring for radical/structural transformations, versus moderate Mexican Americans and groups, seeking reformist changes.” -- Alvaro Huerta, California State Polytechnic University
ISBN: 9781793624536
Dimensions: 228mm x 161mm x 26mm
Weight: 599g
274 pages