Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlan

Armando Navarro is a political scientist and professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He has over twenty-eight years of activism and professional experience in community organizing and advocacy, dealing with a myriad of local, state, national, and international social justice issues that affect Latinos. His previous books include Mexican American Youth Organization; The Cristal Experiment; and

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 1: Historical Antecedents to the Mexicano Political Experience in the U.S. (50,000 B.C. To 1848 A.D.)Chapter 3 2: Epoch of Armed and Political Resistance (1848-1916)Chapter 4 3: Epoch of Adaptation Politics (1917-1945)Chapter 5 4: The Epoch of Social Action Politics (1946-1965)Chapter 6 5: Epoch of Militant Protest Politics (1966-1974)Chapter 7 6: Epoch of The Viva Yo Hispanic Generation (1975-1999)Chapter 8 7: Epoch of Hispanic Generation Politics (1975-1999)Chapter 9 8: Epoch of Transition (2000-2003)Chapter 10 Epilogue: Conclusions and Prospects for Change in the 21st Century

Armando Navarro has written a sweeping panorama of the role and importance of political culture in Chicano history. It revises the general stereotype of the apolitical Mexican and scholarly documents the central role of political agency among Chicanos.