<p><em>Youth, Identity, Power</em> is the classic study of the origins of the1960s Chicano civil rights movement. Written by a leader of the Chicano studentmovement who also played a key role in the creation of the wider ChicanoMovement, this is the first full-length work to appear on the subject. It fillsan important gap in the history of political and social protest in the UnitedStates.</p><p>Carlos Muñoz places the Chicano Movement in the context of the political andintellectual development of people of Mexican descent in the USA, tracing theemergence of student activists and intellectuals in the 1930s and their initialchallenge to the dominant white racial and class ideologies. He then documentsthe rise and fall of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, situating it within the1960s civil rights and radical movements and assessing the Chicano Movement'scontribution to the development of the Mexican American population and theLatino population as a whole.</p><p>In an afterword to this new edition, Muñoz charts the burgeoning growth ofUS Latino communities, assesses the nativist backlash against them, and arguesthat Latinos must play a central role in a new movement for multiracialdemocracy.</p>