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CHICANO POWER
THE EMERGENCE OF
MEXICAN AMERICA
AUTHOR: TONY
CASTRO
PUBLISHER: E. P.
DUTTON, 1974
Chicano Power Excerpt
ISBN:
0-8415-0321-4 (cloth)
ISBN:
0-8415-0349-4 (paper)
Chicano Power
tells the whole story of America's second largest disadvantaged minority,
the Mexican Americans. Tony Castro's own Mexican-American heritage helps him
get an inside view of the Chicano movement, as he traces his people's
progress of disappointment, accommodation, and radicalism, concentrating
particularly on the last decade. In this first thorough survey of the
movement, Castro shows how the Mexican Americans finally turned against the
miserable housing, meager job opportunities and inadequate schools that have
been their lot in this country and launched one of the most noticeable and
most successful movements of the 1960s.
At the center of
the book are Castro's portraits of Mexican American leaders, the men who
pushed the Chicano movement forward, by turns uniting and splintering it.:
Cesar Chavez, whose strike against table grape growers in California
garnered enormous publicity and the first union organization for migrant
farm workers; Reies Lopez Tijerina, who wants to redistribute land in the
Southwest to the descendants of the holders of the original Mexican land
grants; Jose Angel Gutierrez, the radical founder of La Raza Unida, the
Mexican American political party in Texas; and Corky Gonzales, the
movement's theorist, who popularized the name Chicano and the concept of
Aztlan, the ancient Mexican-Indian name for the American Southwest.
For all their
talented leaders, the Chicanos, like the blacks, have come to a period of
regrouping their forces. The radical nationalists find their support
tapering off, and many Mexican Americans have entered what Castro calls
Brown Middle America. The Chicanos themselves disagreed on their role in
American society and the routes they should follow to achieve their goals.
Whatever the future holds for the movement, Chicano Power provides a
reasoned, committed record of Mexican America's past and present.
$9.95
6X9
242 PAGES
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MICKEY MANTLE:
AMERICA'S PRODIGAL
SON
AUTHOR: TONY
CASTRO
PUBLISHER: BRASSEY'S INC.
PUBLICATION DATE:
JULY, 2002
ISBN:
1-57488-384-4
A new biography of the controversial baseball great that focuses on his
important place in American culture
Places Mickey Mantle and the Mantle mythology within the context of the
America of the Fifties and Sixties
Provides more details about the events touched upon in Billy Crystal’s HBO
film 61*
Contains new insight into Mantle’s relationships with Roger Maris, Billy
Martin, Casey Stengel, Whitey Ford, and other baseball legends, and into
Mantle’s turbulent final years
In the great cultural icon that was baseball slugger Mickey Mantle, we see
America’s romance with boldness, its celebration of muscle, and its comfort
in power during a time when might did make right. But if his life symbolized
the great expectations of 1950s America, it also epitomized the dashed
dreams of a troubled generation in the 1960s and its unrealistic hopes for
achievement. Mantle is both an explosive biography of one of the
world’s most fascinating and enduring sports heroes and a telling look at
the American society of his time. It is based on six years of research
during which former Sports Illustrated writer Tony Castro interviewed more
than 250 friends, teammates, lovers, acquaintances, and drinking buddies of
one of America’s most famous heroes.
TONY CASTRO is a former staff writer for Sports Illustrated who did graduate
work on socio-psychology in American Studies while a Nieman Fellow at
Harvard. His previous book is Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican
America. His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the
Washington Post, and other publications. Castro lives in Beverly
Hills, California.
SPORTS
$26.95
1-57488-384-4
6 X 9
386 PAGES
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