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Sancho's Journal

Exploring the Political Edge with the Brown Berets

November 1, 2012 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9780292743847
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Description

How do people acquire political consciousness, and how does that consciousness transform their behavior? This question launched the scholarly career of David Montejano, whose masterful explorations of the Mexican American experience produced the award-winning books Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986, a sweeping outline of the changing relations between the two peoples, and Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981, a concentrated look at how a social movement "from below" began to sweep away the last vestiges of the segregated social-political order in San Antonio and South Texas. Now in Sancho's Journal, Montejano revisits the experience that set him on his scholarly quest--"hanging out" as a participant-observer with the South Side Berets of San Antonio as the chapter formed in 1974.

Sancho's Journal presents a rich ethnography of daily life among the "batos locos" (crazy guys) as they joined the Brown Berets and became associated with the greater Chicano movement. Montejano describes the motivations that brought young men into the group and shows how they learned to link their individual troubles with the larger issues of social inequality and discrimination that the movement sought to redress. He also recounts his own journey as a scholar who came to realize that, before he could tell this street-level story, he had to understand the larger history of Mexican Americans and their struggle for a place in U.S. society. Sancho's Journal completes that epic story.

About this Author

David Montejano is Professor of Ethnic Studies and History at the University of California, Berkeley. His fields of specialization include community studies, historical and political sociology, and race and ethnic relations. In addition to his books Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 and Quixote's Soldiers, he is the editor of Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century.

ISBN: 9780292743847
Format: Trade paperback
Series: Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and C
Pages: 219
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2012-11-01

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