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An examination of the political & intellectual history of Mexican Americans throughout the decades 1930-1960, presented in III PARTS & a Conclusion containing 12 Chpts. (1) The Mexican-American Generation -- describes the book's structure, ie, a general overview of the political leaders, organizations, & movements that guided the Mexican-American population through the periods of the Great Depression, WWII, & the cold war, with case studies used to demonstrate particular points. PART I - THE MIDDLE CLASS - contains (2) In Search of America: The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) -- describes the formation in 1929 of LULAC, an organization dedicated to Mexican-American civil rights, which encouraged cultural pluralism as a means of integrating Mexican Americans into the mainstream of US culture, commonly called Americanization; (3) Education and the Mexican American: Eleuterio Escobar and the School Improvement League of San Antonio -- discusses a San Antonio, Tex, organization headed by Escobar that struggled from 1934 to 1956 for educational reform of the city's schools, & notes that such grass-roots organizations were vital to LULAC's national cause, because education was considered imperative to the integration & social mobility it sought; (4) Mexican-American Muckraker: Ignacio L. Lopez and El Espectador -- examines the work of Lopez, who published & edited a Spanish-language weekly newspaper from 1933 to 1961 in southern Calif's San Gabriel Valley, writing of the need for civil rights, political integration, & cultural pluralism, which influenced the Mexican-American consciousness & shaped the Mexican-American movement for integration in the San Gabriel Valley; & (5) The Politics of Status: The Election of Raymond L. Telles as mayor of El Paso, 1957 -- describes the landmark election that signified progress toward political representation & status for the Mexican-American community as a whole, giving Mexican Americans greater confidence in themselves as legitimate participants in the politics & society of the US. PART II - LABOR AND THE LEFT - includes (6) The Popular Front: Josefina Fierro de Bright and the Spanish-Speaking Congress -- offers a look at one alternative to LULAC's middle class ideology in which more leftist Mexican-American leaders sought to use working class Mexican Americans as the foundation of their organization, the Spanish-Speaking Congress founded in 1938 & led by Fierro de Bright for about three years, which differed from LULAC most notably by supporting public protest & direct action; (7) Border Proletariats: Mexican Americans and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers -- describes a third alternative as a means of acquiring social recognition, trade union movements, with special attention given to the creation of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers in El Paso in the late 1930s; & (8) Mexican American Radicals and the Cold War: The Asociacion Nacional Mexico-Americana (ANMA) -- describes the activities of ANMA, which was founded in the late 1940s as a successor to the Spanish-Speaking Congress, & which suffered a similar fate, all activity ceasing by 1954. PART III - MEXICAN-AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS - presents (9) Carlos E. Castaneda and the Search for History -- chronicles the work of historian Castaneda, who sought to provide the Mexican-American community with a past in order to better understand their position in US society; (10) George I. Sanchez and the Forgotten People -- offers an overview of the career of George Sanchez, an educational sociologist who studied the effects of an inadequate educational system on the Mexican-American community's position in US society; & (11) Arthur L. Campa and the Cultural Question -- examines the work of folklorist Campa, who studied Mexican-American culture in the Southwest in an attempt to provide a historical basis for the cultural identity of the Mexican-American community. CONCLUSION - presents (12) The Chicano in American History -- notes the relatively brief period of time that the dynamics of Mexican-American history have been studied (about twenty years) & emphasizes the need to recognize the social & political significance of an ethnic group that will soon be the largest minority population in the US. Extensive Chpt Notes include references. 1 Table, 19 Photographs. R. Logsdon