Latino Social Movements

Rodolfo D. Torres is Professor of Chicano Studies and Public Policy at California State University, Long Beach and Visiting Professor of Education and Social Policy at the University of California, Irvine. He is co-editor of Latinos and Education (Routledge, 1997) and New AmericanDestinies (Routledge, 1996), and co-author of LatinoMetropolis (forthcoming 199x). George Katsiaficas is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wentworth Institute of Technology and Editor of the New PoliticalScience journal. He is author of The Subversion ofPolitics: European Autonomous Social Movements and theDecolonization of Everyday Life.

Latinos make up the fastest growing population segment in the US, and by the middle of the next century, they will outnumber all other minority groups combined. Even more significant is the fact that within a few years, Latinos will number more than a quarter of the nation's work force; this is more than three times their proportion in the general population. "Latino Social Movements" discusses the socioeconomic and cultural consequences of the changing US population in the light of globalization. It calls attention to the increasing significance of class and the system of global capitalism that underlies political relations of power. Focusing on the place of labor, class, patriarchy and capital, this collection relates these objective realities with the subjective context of popular attempts to transform the existing socio-economic conditions of Latino life.

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION, Rodolfo D. Torres, George Katsiaficas; Chapter 2 Anti-Colonial Chicana Feminism, Teresa Córdova; Chapter 3 Lessons from el BarriöThe East Harlem Real Great Society/Urban Planning Studio: A Puerto Rican Chapter in the Fight for Urban Self-Determination, Luis Aponte-Parés; Chapter 4 Boricuas, African Americans, and Chicanos in the Far West: Notes on the Puerto Rican Pro-Independence Movement in California, 1960s¿1980s1, Victor M. Rodriguez; Chapter 5 The 1933 Los Angeles County Farm Workers Strike, Gilbert G. González; Chapter 6 Latino Immigrant Workers in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry, Edna Bonacich; Chapter 7 Latino Politics¿Class Struggles: Reflections on the Future of Latino Politics, Martha E. Gimenez; Chapter 8 The Cloning of La Raza Unida Part y for the Twenty-first Century: Electoral Pragmatism or Misguided Nostalgia?, Richard Santillan;