No state has a greater density of Chicano community leaders and politicians than does Texas. This study examines the lives and politics of a distinguished group

Chicanas in Charge offers profiles, in the form of oral histories, of the careers of female community and political leaders from the Chicano community in Texas.

This book deals with a broad range of social issues facing Mexican-origin people in the United States. The studies presented in this volume are brought together

Previous studies in the fields of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and gender studies have focused upon Chicano linguistic communities as a monolith or ha

The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergen