Ernesto Chávez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ernesto Chávez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ernesto |
| FAMILY NAME | Chávez |
| SIGNATURE | CHAVEZ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction: Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: A Forum on the Past, Present, and Future of US (Un)Equal Rights
This essay serves as an introduction to “Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: A Forum on the Past, Present, and Future of US (Un)Equal Rights,” an American Quarterly forum that stems from a panel at the American Studies Association conference in November 2012. The forum attempts to understand the simultaneous expansion of gay and lesbian rights through the vehicle of marriage equality and the retraction of Mexican American civil liberties through…
Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics
Book Review| October 01 2012 Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics. By Richard T. Rodríguez. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. xi + 256 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Ernesto Chávez Ernesto Chávez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2012) 32 (1): 120–1…
Chicano/a History
This article surveys the writing of Chicano/a history since its inception and reflects on why scholars have been concerned with certain issues and how they have written about them. Born from the tumult of the Vietnam era, the field has challenged the status quo and emboldened those communities from which Chicano/a historians come and which they ultimately serve. Given the generation-long development of Mexican American history, this article focus…
Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice
Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice Get access Lopez Ian Haney. Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 2003. x, 324 pp. $16.95. Ernesto Chavez Ernesto Chavez University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 4, October 2005, Pages 443–444, https://doi.org/10.2307/30039555…
Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A
Journal Article Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A. Get access Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.. By Pagán Eduardo Obregón. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xii + 313 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Ernesto Chávez Ernesto Chávez University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this au…
"Mi Raza Primero" (My People First): Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978
Journal Article ”¡Mi Raza Primero” (My People First): Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966–1978 Get access ”¡Mi Raza Primero” (My People First): Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966–1978. By Chávez Ernesto. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xvii + 166 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $18.95, paper.) Ronald W. López, II Ronald W…
Mi Raza Primero, My People First: Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978
Mi Raza Primero! is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale—in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. Ernesto Chávez focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: The Brown Berets, the Chicano Moratorium Committee, La Raza Unida Party, and the Centro de Acción Social Autónomo, commonly known as CASA. Chávez examines a…
Mexican Americans in Texas History: Selected Essays
Journal Article Mexican Americans in Texas History: Selected Essays Get access Mexican Americans in Texas History: Selected Essays. Edited by Zamora Emilio Orozco Cynthia Rocha Rodolfo. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2000. 226 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliographies. $15.95, paper.) Ernesto Chávez Ernesto Chávez University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Qua…
Imagining the Mexican Immigrant Worker
This article argues that the Chicano movement should be looked upon as a unique historicalproduction. It focuses on the Committee to Free Los Tres (and later CASA) and examines its construction of ideology, identity, and community based upon the organization's understanding of the social, pofiticaz, and economic forces-both national and intemational-impinging upon it. In so doing, the organization imagined the Mexican immigrant-worker as the repr…
Culture, Identity, and Community: Musings on Chicano Historiography at the End of the Millennium
Book Review| January 01 1998 Culture, Identity, and Community: Musings on Chicano Historiography at the End of the Millennium Racial Faultlines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in CaliforniaGeorge J. SánchezWalls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of EthnicityDavid G. Gutiérrez Ernesto Chávez Ernesto Chávez Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Mexican Studies/Estudio…
Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Journal Article Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States Get access Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States. Edited by Gutiérrez. David G.. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1996. xxvii + 271 pp. Notes, bibliography. $40.00, cloth; $16.95, paper.) Ernesto Chávez Ernesto Chávez University of Texas, El Paso Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterl…
Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity
Journal Article Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity Get access Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity. By Gutiérrez David G.. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiii + 320 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth; $15.00, paper.) Ernesto Chávez Ernesto Chávez University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author o…
Chicano/a History
This article surveys the writing of Chicano/a history since its inception and reflects on why scholars have been concerned with certain issues and how they have written about them. Born from the tumult of the Vietnam era, the field has challenged the status quo and emboldened those communities from which Chicano/a historians come and which they ultimately serve. Given the generation-long development of Mexican American history, this article focus…
Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity
Journal Article Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity Get access Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity. By Gutiérrez David G.. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiii + 320 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth; $15.00, paper.) Ernesto Chávez Ernesto Chávez University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author o…
Culture, Identity, and Community: Musings on Chicano Historiography at the End of the Millennium
Book Review| January 01 1998 Culture, Identity, and Community: Musings on Chicano Historiography at the End of the Millennium Racial Faultlines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in CaliforniaGeorge J. SánchezWalls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of EthnicityDavid G. Gutiérrez Ernesto Chávez Ernesto Chávez Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Mexican Studies/Estudio…
Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Journal Article Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States Get access Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States. Edited by Gutiérrez. David G.. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1996. xxvii + 271 pp. Notes, bibliography. $40.00, cloth; $16.95, paper.) Ernesto Chávez Ernesto Chávez University of Texas, El Paso Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterl…
Imagining the Mexican Immigrant Worker
This article argues that the Chicano movement should be looked upon as a unique historicalproduction. It focuses on the Committee to Free Los Tres (and later CASA) and examines its construction of ideology, identity, and community based upon the organization's understanding of the social, pofiticaz, and economic forces-both national and intemational-impinging upon it. In so doing, the organization imagined the Mexican immigrant-worker as the repr…
Mexican Americans in Texas History: Selected Essays
Journal Article Mexican Americans in Texas History: Selected Essays Get access Mexican Americans in Texas History: Selected Essays. Edited by Zamora Emilio Orozco Cynthia Rocha Rodolfo. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2000. 226 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliographies. $15.95, paper.) Ernesto Chávez Ernesto Chávez University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Qua…
Mi Raza Primero, My People First: Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978
Mi Raza Primero! is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale—in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. Ernesto Chávez focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: The Brown Berets, the Chicano Moratorium Committee, La Raza Unida Party, and the Centro de Acción Social Autónomo, commonly known as CASA. Chávez examines a…
"Mi Raza Primero" (My People First): Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978
Journal Article ”¡Mi Raza Primero” (My People First): Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966–1978 Get access ”¡Mi Raza Primero” (My People First): Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966–1978. By Chávez Ernesto. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xvii + 166 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $18.95, paper.) Ronald W. López, II Ronald W…
Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice
Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice Get access Lopez Ian Haney. Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 2003. x, 324 pp. $16.95. Ernesto Chavez Ernesto Chavez University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 4, October 2005, Pages 443–444, https://doi.org/10.2307/30039555…
Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A
Journal Article Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A. Get access Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.. By Pagán Eduardo Obregón. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xii + 313 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Ernesto Chávez Ernesto Chávez University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this au…
Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics
Book Review| October 01 2012 Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics. By Richard T. Rodríguez. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. xi + 256 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Ernesto Chávez Ernesto Chávez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2012) 32 (1): 120–1…
Chicano/a History
This article surveys the writing of Chicano/a history since its inception and reflects on why scholars have been concerned with certain issues and how they have written about them. Born from the tumult of the Vietnam era, the field has challenged the status quo and emboldened those communities from which Chicano/a historians come and which they ultimately serve. Given the generation-long development of Mexican American history, this article focus…
Introduction: Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: A Forum on the Past, Present, and Future of US (Un)Equal Rights
This essay serves as an introduction to “Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: A Forum on the Past, Present, and Future of US (Un)Equal Rights,” an American Quarterly forum that stems from a panel at the American Studies Association conference in November 2012. The forum attempts to understand the simultaneous expansion of gay and lesbian rights through the vehicle of marriage equality and the retraction of Mexican American civil liberties through…
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