Mexican Americans: leadership, ideology, and identity, 1930-1960

Introduction: The Mexican-American generation. Part 1 The middle class: in search of America - the League of United Latin American citizens (LULAC): education and the Mexican American-Eusebio Escobar and the School Improvement League of San Antonio Mexican American Muckraker - Ignacio L. Lopez and Espectador: the politics of status - the election of Raymond L. Telles as Mayor of El Paso, 1957. Part 2 Labour and the left: the popular front - Josefina Fierro de Bright and Spanish Congress border Proletariats - Mexican Americans and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Mexican American radicals and the Cold War - the Association Nacional Mexico-Americana (ANMA). Part 3 Mexican American Intellectuals: Carlos E. Castaneda and the search for history George E. Sanchez and the forgotten people Arthur L. Campa and the cultural question. Conclusion: the Chicano in American history.