Background
Muñoz, Carlos was born on August 25, 1939 in El Paso, Texas, United States. Son of Carlos Grcia and Clementina (Contreras) Muñoz.
(Youth, Identity, Power is the classic study of the origin...)
Youth, Identity, Power is the classic study of the origins of the 1960s Chicano civil rights movement. Written by a leader of the Chicano student movement who also played a key role in the creation of the wider Chicano Movement, this is the first full-length work to appear on the subject. It fills an important gap in the history of political and social protest in the United States. Carlos Muñoz places the Chicano Movement in the context of the political and intellectual development of people of Mexican descent in the USA, tracing the emergence of student activists and intellectuals in the 1930s and their initial challenge to the dominant white racial and class ideologies. He then documents the rise and fall of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, situating it within the 1960s civil rights and radical movements and assessing the Chicano Movement’s contribution to the development of the Mexican American population and the Latino population as a whole. In an afterword to this new edition, Muñoz charts the burgeoning growth of US Latino communities, assesses the nativist backlash against them, and argues that Latinos must play a central role in a new movement for multiracial democracy.
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Muñoz, Carlos was born on August 25, 1939 in El Paso, Texas, United States. Son of Carlos Grcia and Clementina (Contreras) Muñoz.
Associate of Arts in Political Science, Los Angeles City College, 1964; Bachelor in Political Science, California State University, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy in Government, Claremont Graduate School, 1973.
Founding chair and instructor Chicano Studies department, California State University, Los Angeles, 1968-1969; lecturer, Pfizer College, Claremont, California, 1969-1970; assistant professor comparative cultures, University of California, Irvine, 1970-1976; professor politics and history, University of California, Berkeley, since 1976. Senior consultant Documentary Film Project, National Latino Communications Center entitled "Chicano] History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement". Consultant Ford Foundation, New York City, 1975, United States Office Education, Washington, 1969.
(Youth, Identity, Power is the classic study of the origin...)
Advisor Jesse Jackson Presidential Campaign, California, 1988. Co-founder LaRaza Unida Party, Southern California, 1971. Founding member National Rainbow Coalition, Northern California, 1984.
With United States Army, 1959-1962. Member American Political Science Association, National Association for Chicano Studies (co-founder, chair 1972-1973), Organisation American Historians, Pi Sigma Alpha.
Married Graciela Eulalia Rios, December 18, 1977. Children: Daniel, Marcelo. Children from previous marriage: Carlos Edward, Marina, Genaro.