Books by Mario T. Garcia

A political and intellectual history of the Chicano leaders who emerged from the barrios of the Southwest, and of their effort to capture first-class citizenship for Mexican Americans. Drawing on archival material and oral history, it discusses key figures, organizations and issues of the movement.

An oral history of a prominent Mexican American scholar.

The first major historical study of the role of Catholicism in Chicano history in the twentieth century.

'The book is a major contribution- the product of serious research, competently written, and almost entirely free of partisan emotion.' -C.L. Sonnichsen, Journal of Arizona History

Best known as the leader of the farm workers' struggle and of the Latino civil rights movement, Chvez, like Ghandi and Dr Martin Luther King, was a religious figure whose faith and spirituality guided his public life. This book uses the leader's own words to bring attention to his faith and the way this faith shaped his leadership.

In The Chicano Generation, veteran Chicano civil rights scholar Mario T. Garcia provides a rare look inside the struggles of the 1960s and 1970s as they unfolded in Los Angeles. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with three key activists, this book illuminates the lives of Raul Ruiz, Gloria Arellanes, and Rosalio Munoz-their family histories and widely divergent backgrounds; the events surrounding their growing consciousness as Chicanos; the sexism encountered by Arellanes; and the aftermath of their political histories. In his substantial introduction, Garcia situates the Chicano movement in Los Angeles and contextualizes activism within the largest civil rights and empowerment struggle by Mexican Americans in US history-a struggle that featured Cesar Chavez and the farm workers, the student movement highlighted by the 1968 LA school blowouts, the Chicano antiwar movement, the organization of La Raza Unida Party, the Chicana feminist movement, the organizing of undocumented workers, and the Chicano Renaissance. Weaving this revolution against a backdrop of historic Mexican American activism from the 1930s to the 1960s and the contemporary black power and black civil rights movements, Garcia gives readers the best representations of the Chicano generation in Los Angeles.