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Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975 (review)

Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975 (review) SouthwesternHistoricalQuarterly January Despite these problems, this is an interesting book that will be useful not only in the study of San Diego and Southern California, but also in the creation of modern mythologies. TecnológicodeMonterrey,CampusSantaCatarina J. A. Zumoff Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965­1975. By George Mariscal. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Pp. 360. Acknowledgments, illustrations, notes, index. ISBN 0826338054. $24.95, paper.) George Mariscal's book adds to a growing number of works that emphasize complexity in the movement among Mexican Americans in the 1960s and 1970s. Brown Eyed Children of the Sun is not chronological history, but a "map" of "the complex ideological field" of the Chicano movement designed to provide lessons for a new generation of activists (p. 21). Those lessons center on the need for coalitions among the oppressed and for an international approach to justice and politics, and Mariscal chronicles what he considers positive models of these approaches. To do so he differentiates between "narrow nationalism"--bad because it is limited and tends toward separatism-and "cultural nationalism" and "internationalism"--good because they allow for cooperation with other groups. His goal is to show that narrow nationalism did not dominate the movement, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southwestern Historical Quarterly Texas State Historical Association

Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975 (review)

Southwestern Historical Quarterly , Volume 110 (3) – Mar 28, 2007

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Texas State Historical Association
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SouthwesternHistoricalQuarterly January Despite these problems, this is an interesting book that will be useful not only in the study of San Diego and Southern California, but also in the creation of modern mythologies. TecnológicodeMonterrey,CampusSantaCatarina J. A. Zumoff Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965­1975. By George Mariscal. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Pp. 360. Acknowledgments, illustrations, notes, index. ISBN 0826338054. $24.95, paper.) George Mariscal's book adds to a growing number of works that emphasize complexity in the movement among Mexican Americans in the 1960s and 1970s. Brown Eyed Children of the Sun is not chronological history, but a "map" of "the complex ideological field" of the Chicano movement designed to provide lessons for a new generation of activists (p. 21). Those lessons center on the need for coalitions among the oppressed and for an international approach to justice and politics, and Mariscal chronicles what he considers positive models of these approaches. To do so he differentiates between "narrow nationalism"--bad because it is limited and tends toward separatism-and "cultural nationalism" and "internationalism"--good because they allow for cooperation with other groups. His goal is to show that narrow nationalism did not dominate the movement,

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Published: Mar 28, 2007

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