| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965–1975. By George Mariscal. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xii, 348 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8263-3805-4.)
In Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun, George Mariscal of the University of California, San Diego, offers a thoughtful meditation on the meaning of the Chicano movement. This rambling study historicizes aspects of the Chicano movement and then offers "lessons" to younger readers that, the author hopes, can shape the course of future activism.	1
Mariscal smartly defines the Chicano movement as shaped by global developments that included the rise of Third World anticolonial struggles, "National liberation movements" within the United States, the existence of a youth counterculture as part of the new Chicano/a context ... and the multiple U.S. imperial interventions during the period.... (p. 7) He contends that the movement was a radical break from prior activism and that scholars have unfairly conflated its ideological diversity with weakness. This is neither a chronological nor a comprehensive history; Mariscal views himself as a "cultural 'archeologist'" mapping out "a diverse array of organizational styles, political languages, and leaders" (p. 23).	. . .

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