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As part of ARE’s ongoing efforts to popularize Ethnic Studies and put critical books in the hands of the people, we are honored to host educator and author Justin Akers Chacon, a local San Diego City College professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies, who will be joining us for a book-release and presentation about his latest book, Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class. The event is FREE and open to the public!
In the author’s own words, Radicals in the Barrio, “is an attempt to bring into focus the rich and deeply interwoven history to Mexican working-class people in the hardscrabble labor and civil rights struggles of the early 20th century. The invisibility of Mexicans in the canon of early labor and civil rights history continues to the present, where we see the suppression of the voices, narratives, and experiences of Mexican and Mexican-descendent people in the discourse of immigration politics. The book is an attempt to bring some of this history into the foreground.”
Please join us to celebrate this groundbreaking text and continue the work to center Raza voices, and resist the silencing of our histories!
Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event!
Preview the intro and a couple chapters here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mxe-NrHOYxyyzu5wCQZMeZmtPypYyXgb
For more information, please email aresandiego94@gmail.com
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