Mexican American Youth Organization: AvantGarde of the Chicano Movement in Texas

Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant-Garde of the Chicano Movement in Texas. By Armando Navarro. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. xxiv, 288 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-292-75556-2. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-292-75557-0.)

The Chicano movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s gave the most significant display of Mexican American alienation and discontent with the American system. The movement marked the coming of political age of a new and more defiant generation of Mexican Americans who militantly identified themselves as "Chicanos"--an earlier urban (barrio) and working-class term of ethnic identity among Mexican immigrants and their offspring. In a bolder and more challenging manner than...