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Based on articles written for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, author Richard J. Gonzales draws onhis educational, inner-city, and professional lifeexperiences to weave eyewitness testimony intoissues facing Chicanos, including economic, health,education, criminal justice, politics, immigration,and cultural issues. Raza Rising presents a personalrecounting of a Chicano’s struggle with andunderstanding of the socio-economic policies andhistorical actions that impact their ascendancy. RazaRising offers first-hand observations, supported bywell-documented scholarly research, of Chicanos’growth and subsequent struggles to participate fullyin North Texas’ political and economic life. Raza Rising takes the reader to the organization ofan immigration reform march, to the actual marchwith 20,000 people, to a protest demonstration ofthe City of Farmers Branch’s attempt to prohibitrenting to the undocumented immigrant, to theauthor’s awakening in Chicago on the importance oflearning, and to his poignant experience as a guestspeaker in a Fort Worth public school classroom.

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Gonzales s account as a history is of great significance because he documents important events and views in the recent history of Mexicans in Dallas and Texas, and he does it with the authority of a first-hand observer. His keen understanding of the Mexican American history that he has lived gives the narrative a high level of originality. Emilio Zamora, author of The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas Raza Rising is clearly a passionate discussion of the many complex issues affecting the wellbeing of Chicanos in North Texas. It does not treat Chicanos in North Texas as isolated from the broader historical and political dynamics of the nation, but rather as directly affected by national movements and attitudes. Gonzales does an excellent job of connecting North Texas to the national scene. David Maldonado, Jr., author of Crossing Guadalupe Street: Growing Up Hispanic and Protestant Richard skillfully chronicles who we are, where we have been, and our continued struggles. Dr. Robert M Munoz, President of the Hispanic Wellness Coalition.

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Gonzales, Richard J. wrote for six years aboutChicanos as a Fort Worth Star-Telegram weekly guestcolumnist. He has published short stories in TheAmericas Review, a Hispanic literary journal of theUniversity of Houston, and has worked in, observed, andresearched the Chicano community from the 1970s tothe present. He lives in Arlington, Texas, USA.

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