Description: This book consists of fourteen interviews with Mexican-American community activists of various stripes in San JosZ.
Brief description:
ALMA M. GARCIA is a Professor of Sociology at Santa Clara University, California. She specializes in Mexican American Studies, Gender Studies, and the political economy of Latin America. Garcia grew up in El Paso, Texas, the daughter of a Mexican immigrant father and a second-generation Mexican American mother.
Review Quotes: By documenting the oral accounts of experiences of Mexican-Americans 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 bond-their unique ethnicity.