
Raza Rising
Chicanos in North Texas
Richard J. Gonzales(Author)
University of North Texas Press,U.S.
Published on 29. February 2016
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-57441-632-9 (ISBN)
Description
Based on articles written for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, author Richard J. Gonzales draws onhis educational, inner-city, and professional lifeexperiences to weave eyewitness testimony intoissues facing Chicanos, including economic, health,education, criminal justice, politics, immigration,and cultural issues. Raza Rising presents a personalrecounting of a Chicano's struggle with andunderstanding of the socio-economic policies andhistorical actions that impact their ascendancy. RazaRising offers first-hand observations, supported bywell-documented scholarly research, of Chicanos'growth and subsequent struggles to participate fullyin North Texas' political and economic life.
Raza Rising takes the reader to the organization ofan immigration reform march, to the actual marchwith 20,000 people, to a protest demonstration ofthe City of Farmers Branch's attempt to prohibitrenting to the undocumented immigrant, to theauthor's awakening in Chicago on the importance oflearning, and to his poignant experience as a guestspeaker in a Fort Worth public school classroom.
Raza Rising takes the reader to the organization ofan immigration reform march, to the actual marchwith 20,000 people, to a protest demonstration ofthe City of Farmers Branch's attempt to prohibitrenting to the undocumented immigrant, to theauthor's awakening in Chicago on the importance oflearning, and to his poignant experience as a guestspeaker in a Fort Worth public school classroom.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Denton
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
34 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57441-632-9 (9781574416329)
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Person
Gonzales, Richard J. wrote for six years aboutChicanos as a Fort Worth Star-Telegram weekly guestcolumnist. He has published short stories in TheAmericas Review, a Hispanic literary journal of theUniversity of Houston, and has worked in, observed, andresearched the Chicano community from the 1970s tothe present. He lives in Arlington, Texas, USA.