| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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¡Raza Sí! ¡Guerra No!: Chicano Protest and Patriotism during the Viet Nam War Era. By Lorena Oropeza. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xviii, 278 pp. $21.95, ISBN 0-520-22511-2.)

The Chicano movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, this study contends, significantly bucked a patriotic self-image Mexican Americans felt they had earned through extensive military service. Such allegiance strengthened during World War II and became integral to Mexican Americanism, an ideology that stressed acceptance and equal rights. Mexican Americans served in all branches of the armed forces, engaged in home front efforts, and became "Rositas the Riveters." Moreover, veterans returned from the war more assertive, desirous of gaining upward mobility, and affirmed in their manliness (machismo). To combat discrimination and rejection, civil rights leaders openly displayed the loyalty shown by their people and asserted that Mexican Americans were the most decorated combatants of any ethnic group. The Korean War offered more opportunity to bolster that self-image.

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