Juan Gómez-Quiñones

About The Author

Juan Gómez-Quiñones is a professor of history at UCLA. His earlier books include Mexican American Labor, 1790-1990, Roots of Chicano Politics, 1600-1940, and Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise, 1940-1990, all published by the University of New Mexico Press.

Series by the Author

Books by Juan Gómez-Quiñones

Making Aztlán

Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement, 1966-1977

By Juan Gómez-Quiñones and Irene Vásquez
This book provides a long-needed overview of the Chicana and Chicano movement's social history as it grew, flourished, and then slowly fragmented. The authors examine the movement's origins in the 1960s and 1970s, showing how it evolved from a variety of organizations and activities united in the...
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Chicano Politics

Reality and Promise 1940-1990

By Juan Gómez-Quiñones
How a new style of politics coalesced into an ethnic populism known as the Chicano movement.
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