The Chicano Experience

Alfredo Mirandé is professor of sociology and ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Gringo Justice (1994), The Stanford Law Chronicles (2005), and Jalos, USA (2014), all published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Preface and Acknowledgments


1. Introduction: Toward a Chicano Social Science


PART I DISPLACEMENT OF THE CHICANO


2. Chicano Labor and the Economy


3. The United States-Mexico Border: A Chicano Perspective on Immigration and Undocumented Workers


4. El Bandido: The Evolution of Images of Chicano Criminality


5. Education: Problems, Issues, and Alternatives


PART II CHICANO CULTURE


6. The Church and the Chicano


7. La Familia Chicana


8. Machismo


9. Epilogue: Toward a Chicano Paradigm


Appendix. Chicano-Police Conflict: A Case Study


Notes


Bibliography


Index