Synopses & Reviews
Named an Outstanding Book on Human Rights for 1990 by the Gustavus Myers Center
Review
"The first major book on the Chicano movement by one of its leaders, who is also a first-rate scholar. Youth, Identity, Power is certain to be a benchmark for all future work on the subject. An important ... contribution to the history of the 1960s, it ... should be required reading." Clayborne Carson
Review
"A very important and powerful book, documenting American history... without question, one of the lodestones in reference to the 'movimiento'." Luis Valdez
Review
"An essential record of the Chicano movement and an important addition to the history of American social protest." San Francisco Chronicle
Synopsis
Youth, Identity, Poweris a unique exploration of the origins and development of Chicano radicalism in America.
About the Author
Carlos Muñoz, Jr. is a scholar-activist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founding chair of the first Chicano Studies Department in the nation and a founder of the National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies.