The University of Arizona The University of Arizona Press

Skip to content
  • Books
  • News
  • Events
  • About
  • Open Arizona
Shoppoing Cart Cart

Gustavo Arellano Includes ‘Rewriting the Chicano Movement’ in LA Times Column

December 1, 2021

In his recent Los Angeles Times column, “Mexicans have fought for a better California for 171 years. These books show how,” Gustavo Arellano highlights four books on Chicano and Mexican-American history in California, including Rewriting the Chicano Movement: New Histories of Mexican American Activism in the Civil Rights Era, edited by Mario T. García, and Ellen McCracken.

From Arellano:

The most moving chapter deals with el movimiento in Fresno County during the 1960s and 1970s, where students from rural towns across the Central Valley came to the big city for a college degree only to find a society out of the Deep South.

“What Mexicans encountered [there],” said author Patrick Fontes, “was an area wholly founded by whites for whites — they indeed entered a foreign land.”

But Chicanos persisted, and vowed to return to their hometowns to make them better. Today, the Central Valley is slowly turning politically purple, like grapes ripening on a vine.

Read the entire column here.

More News

For Authors

The University of Arizona Press publishes the work of leading scholars from around the globe. Learn more about submitting a proposal, preparing your final manuscript, and publication.

Inquire

Requests

The University of Arizona Press is proud to share our books with readers, booksellers, media, librarians, scholars, and instructors. Join our email Newsletter. Request reprint licenses, information on subsidiary rights and translations, accessibility files, review copies, and desk and exam copies.

Request

Support the Press

Support a premier publisher of academic, regional, and literary works. We are committed to sharing past, present, and future works that reflect the special strengths of the University of Arizona and support its land-grant mission.

Give
The University of Arizona Press

The University of Arizona Press
1510 E. University Blvd.
P.O. Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055

Our offices are located on the fifth floor of the Main Library building, to your right as you exit the elevators.

Office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, Monday through Friday. (Arizona does not observe daylight saving time.)

Orders: (800) 621-2736 (phone)
Office: (520) 621-1441

  • About
  • Books
  • Contact
  • Events
  • News
  • Catalogs
  • Open Arizona
  • Authors
  • Booksellers
  • Educators
  • Librarians
  • Media
Privacy | University Privacy Statement
Follow Us FacebookIcon TwitterIcon
© 2023 The University of Arizona Press
  • About
  • Books
  • Contact
  • Events
  • News
  • Catalogs
  • Open Arizona
  • Authors
  • Booksellers
  • Educators
  • Librarians
  • Media