Description: Rodriguez examines how Chicano political and social movements developed at both ends of the migratory labor network that flowed between Crystal City, Texas, and Wisconsin during the 1960s and 1970s. By providing a view of the Chicano movement beyond the Southwest, Rodriguez reveals an emergent ethnic identity, discovers an overlooked youth movement, and interrogates the meanings of American citizenship.
Review Quotes: "No extant work portrays and documents the links between the migrant phenomenon and political activism in Texas and the Midwest so thoroughly as "The Tejano Diaspora". This original and important story is one of the finest scholarly studies to date of the Chicano movement."--Dionicio Valdes, Michigan State University