The Chicano Generation: Testimonios of a Movement

Professor Mario T. García will discuss The Chicano Generation: Testimonios of the Movement based on his book by the same title published by University of California Press in 2015. It is a study based on the oral history testimonios and narratives by three key Chicano Movement leaders in Los Angeles. The Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970 was the largest and most widespread Mexican American civil rights and community empowerment movement in Chicano history to that time. It helped make Chicanos and other Latinos into national political actors and laid the foundation for contemporary Latino political power. Based on extensive oral histories, García presents the stories of these three activists and their involvement in the Movement and how the Movement changed their lives.