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Summer, 2005
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Book Review


A Century of Chicano History: Empire, Nations, and Migration. By Gilbert G. Gonzales and Raul A. Fernandez. (New York: Routledge, 2003. xv + 206 pp. Notes, index. $22.95, paper.)
      The zest of this book's writing communicates the strongly felt commitment of the writers to their actual subjects, capitalist-driven labor immigration and the utility of the economic interpretation for social history and public policy analysis. The ostensible subject of the volume is "origins" of Chicano history, the content and significance of which is somewhat unclear despite repeated references to it. The arguments of the book are present with an underscoring interpretive economic emphasis concurrent with compelling social evidence derived from extensive reading and research on topics covered by the two authors. . . .
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