Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican-Americans in Search of Justice and Power--The Struggle for Citizenship Rights in San Jose, California

Reviews of Ethnic Community Builders "By documenting the oral accounts of experiences of MexicanAmericans across the American West, Ethnic Community Builders provides an original perspective of the struggles, successes, and challenges of Hispanics in urban centers. Too often, written accounts can obscure the character of important people and events. Ethnic Community Builders goes straight to the source and harmoniously captures the voices of these diverse groups of people tied together with a common bondtheir unique ethnicity."Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico "Unique and important, the authors have masterfully used oral history to create a mosaic of the animo, the soul, of the MexicanAmerican activists who galvanized the economically poor and socially discriminated against into a powerful community of American citizens. A must read for all those interested in ethnic community formation, MexicanAmericans in San José, CA, in particular, and the Southwest in general, those following the current immigration debates and especially partisans who allege that Mexican immigrants take more than they contribute. Read this book!"James A. Sandos, Farquhar Professor of the Southwest, University of Redlands