Mi Raza Primero! (My People First!)
Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978

Examines the Chicano movement's development in Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. This book focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: the Brown Berets, the Chicano Moratorium Committee, La Raza Unida Party, and the Centro de Accion Social Autonomo.

Examining such variables as gender, class, age, and power relationships, this book offers a sophisticated consideration of how ethnic nationalism and identity functioned in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s.

Acknowledgments Introduction: "Those Times of Revolution"
1. "A Movable Object Meeting an Irresistible Force": Los Angeles's Ethnic Mexican Community in the 1950s and Early 1960s 2. "Birth of A New Symbol": The Brown Berets 3. "Chale No, We Won't Go!": The Chicano Moratorium Committee 4. "The Voice of the Chicano People": La Raza Unida Party 5. "Un Pueblo Sin Fronteras": The Centro de Accion Social Autonomo (CASA)
Afterword: "Why Are We Not Marching Like in the '70s?" Notes Bibliography Index