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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.

Examines the importance of Crystal City, TX, & the TX-WI migrant social system to the development of the US Chicano movement. Although Crystal City is considered the movement's birthplace, it is argued that the migrant social system provided two distinct sources of oppositional consciousness among the farm workers who called themselves "Cristalenos." The basis for the condition of oppression that kept them at the bottom of the labor hierarchy in the Anglo-dominated system is described, along with the 1963 beginning of an oppositional culture, when five poor, uneducated Cristalenos successfully ran for the city council in Crystal City. The subsequent evolution of an oppositional consciousness is traced to shed light on the formation of the Raza Unida Party & the larger US Chicano movement. It is argued that the success of the Chicano movement was rooted in the productive mingling of two strands of oppositional consciousness -- traditional anger, folklore, & political wisdom in TX, & more progressive labor traditions in WI. The national implications of the merger of two strands of ideology are discussed. J. Lindroth

Examines the importance of Crystal City, TX, & the TX-WI migrant social system to the development of the US Chicano movement. Although Crystal City is considered the movement's birthplace, it is argued that the migrant social system provided two distinct sources of oppositional consciousness among the farm workers who called themselves "Cristalenos." The basis for the condition of oppression that kept them at the bottom of the labor hierarchy in the Anglo-dominated system is described, along with the 1963 beginning of an oppositional culture, when five poor, uneducated Cristalenos successfully ran for the city council in Crystal City. The subsequent evolution of an oppositional consciousness is traced to shed light on the formation of the Raza Unida Party & the larger US Chicano movement. It is argued that the success of the Chicano movement was rooted in the productive mingling of two strands of oppositional consciousness -- traditional anger, folklore, & political wisdom in TX, & more progressive labor traditions in WI. The national implications of the merger of two strands of ideology are discussed. J. Lindroth