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Obreros y Sindicatos Chicanos: Varieties of Chicano Working-Class History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Zaragosa Vargas
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara

Abstract

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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1994

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NOTES

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13. Gómez-Quiñones, Chicano Politics, 51; Garcia, Mexican Americans, 204–12; idem, “Working for the Union,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 9 (Summer 1993):242. ANMA was dedicated to gaining civil and economic rights for Mexican Americans and toward this end developed coalitions with other racial and ethnic minorities and with progressive organizations like the Civil Rights Congress. In light of the anticommunist hysteria and resulting domestic repression, ANMA appealed to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to investigate the dismal plight of Mexican immigrant farm workers and publicly opposed the Korean War conflict and U.S. support for Latin American dictorships and interventions in Guatamala and the Middle East. Red-baited as a subversive group, ANMA soon lost credibility.