Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: We Are Aztlán!
Jerry García

Part One--Empire and Borders
1. Empire, Colonialism, and Mexican Labor in Greater Aztlán
Dionicio Valdés
2. Gaagegoo Dabakaanan miiniwaa Debenjigejig: No Borders, Indigenous Sovereignty
Dylan Miner

Part Two--El Movimiento in the Northern Borderlands
3. Democratizing Washington State's Yakima County: A History of Latino/a Voter Suppression since 1967
Josué Q. Estrada
4. The Struggle for Xicana/o Studies in the Northern Borderlands: War of the Flea in [Azt]lansing Michigan
Ernesto Todd Mireles
5. El Movimiento in Washington State: Activism in the Yakima Valley and Puget Sound Regions
Oscar Rosales Castañeda
6. Stories of Remembrance and Resistance: María Alanís Ruiz, Chicana Activism, and the Chicano Movement
Norma L. Cárdenas

Part Three--Community, Labor, and Immigration
7. The Mexicanization of a Northwest Community:
The Case of Woodburn, Oregon
Carlos Saldivar Maldonado and Rachel Maldonado
8. Norteada/Northed: My Tears Created the Great Lakes
Theresa Meléndez
9. Becoming Aztlán in the Northern Borderlands
Jerry García

Contributors

Index

About the Author

Jerry García received his doctorate from Washington State University and has had academic appointments at Iowa State, Michigan State, and Eastern Washington Universities. His most recent book is Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and U.S. Hegemony, 1897-1945 (2014).

Reviews

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