| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

"¡Mi Raza Primero!" (My People First!): Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966–1978. By Ernesto Chávez. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xviii, 166 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-520-23017-5. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-520-23018-3.)

Any scholar of the Chicano movement inevitably enters dangerous waters. Partisanship persists because, as in all analyses of political insurgencies, the questions of why the movement failed, what could have been done differently, and what tactical and ideological errors might prove instructive for the present yield often unstated agendas. That the field of Chicano studies was a product of that very Chicano movement, and that many Chicano scholars were participants or at least partisans, further complicates the matter. Ernesto Chávez navigates these waters quite well.

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