Examines the Chicano movement's development in Los Angeles. This book examines and chronicles the ideas and tactics of the insurgency's leaders and their followers who, while differing in their goals and tactics, nonetheless came together as Chicanos and reformers.

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