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CHICANO POWER, Book Sample

Chicano Power

The Emergence of Mexican America

By Tony Castro

Published 1974 by Saturday Review Press/E.P.Dutton

Copyright 1974, Tony Castro

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The Age of La Raza  

IT WAS MIDSUMMER 1972, two weeks after he had turned down a place on his party’s presidential ticket, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, in that flat Boston twang so reminiscent of the voices of the other Kennedys, was recalling the past for a people whose own history on the continent predated that of...

CHICANO POWER Sample

Chicano Power

The Emergence of Mexican America

By Tony Castro

Copyright © 2025 by Tony Castro

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Including the right of reproduction

In whole or in part in any form.

Printed in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Catalog-in-Publication Data

Chicano Power, 5oth Anniversary Edition 

Tony Castro.  – 1st ed. p. cm.

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