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Sonenshein, Raphael J. Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.

A study of multicultural political coalitions in Los Angeles and an analysis of the campaigns of Tom Bradley, the 4-term mayor of the city.

Escobar, Edward J.  Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Study of the growing hostility between Mexicans in Los Angeles and the LAPD in the first half of the twentieth century.

Munoz, Carlos, Jr. Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement. New York: Verso, 1989.

A study of the emergence of the Chicano student activist movement in the 1960s.

Pycior, Julie.  LBJ and Mexican Americans: The Paradox of Power.  Austin: University of Texas, 1997.

Study of the relationship between Mexican American voters and the political fortunes of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the Texas politician who became U.S. President.

Mazon, Mauricio. The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984.

Classic social science study of the zoot-suit riots.

Griswold del Castillo, Richard and Richard A. Garcia. Cesar Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

A biography of Cesar Chavez.

Richardson, James. Willie Brown: A Biography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

A biography of a California and African American politician.

Kelin, Norman and Sabra-Anne Kelin. Barbara Jordan. Los Angeles: Melrose Square Pub., 1993.

A biography of a Texas and African American politician.

Pettigrew, Thomas F. and Denise A. Alston. Tom Bradley's Campaigns for Governor: The Dilemma of Race and Political Strategies. Washington, D.C.: Joint Center for Political Studies, 1988.

A study of race and politics seen through the campaigns of Tom Bradley.

Zoot Suit. Directed by Luis Valdez. 104m. 1991. Videorecording.

A group of Mexican-Americans are sent to San Quentin unjustly for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. Based on the actual case and Zoot suit riots of 1940's Los Angeles. In IMC. VIDEOTAPE 02422

The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle. Produced and Directed by Ray Talles. 125m. 1996. Videorecording.

The story of Cesar Chavez and the movement he inspired. In the Law Library. VIDEOTAPE HD6509.C48 F476 1996

Yo Soy. Produced and directed by Jose Luiz Ruiz and Jesus Salvador Trevino. 60m. 1985. Videorecording.

Examines the key issues, problems, and concerns of the Mexican-American community in the United States, reviews the progress Chicanos have recently made in politics, education, labor, and economic development, and summarizes the ways they are responding to the challenges of the future. In IMC. VIDEOTAPE 02952

Chicano!: History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. 228m. 1996. Videorecording.

Chronicles various aspects of the struggles for equal rights by Mexican Americans. Episode 1. Quest for a homeland -- Episode 2. The struggle in the fields -- Episode 3. Taking back the schools -- Episode 4. Fighting for political power. In IMC. VIDEOTAPE 02918

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard

The web page of the Representative from California who is also Edward Roybal’s daughter. http://www.house.gov/roybal-allard/photo_album.htm

United Farm Workers

Their home page. http://www.ufw.org/

Moquin, Wayne, ed. A Documentary History of the Mexican Americans. New York: Praeger, 1971.

Includes a section with many documents from the Chicano movement.

Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee. The Sleepy Lagoon Mystery. San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1972.

Reprint of the 1944 ed. published by the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee.

El Macriado

The journal of the United Farm Workers, published 1970-74.