Synopses & Reviews
This is a multifaceted approach to understanding one of the nation's largest ethnic communities. Blea incorporates community social history, physical, psychological, and spiritual space. The book strives to teach the student how to do research in an ethnic community. It also describes what is already understood about those communities and defines the nature of the 25 year old discipline of Chicano studies. The use of the Chicana feminist perspective lends not only a gender role analysis, but also demonstrates the structure and function of the balance of personal and social control within the context of the community.
Review
Commendations to Praeger for publishing this unconventional text...Blea has written a guide that students with any racial or ethnic identity, feminists or not, should welcome....Analysis should lead to critical thinking, reconsiliation, the betterment of communities, and the healing of the nation.MultiCultural Review
Synopsis
A comprehensive approach to the study of the Chicano population of the United States.
About the Author
IRENE ISABEL BLEA is the chairperson of the Department of Chicano Studies at California State University in Los Angeles.