La Gente by Lorena V Márquez | All Books sku-966934069

La Gente: Struggles for Empowerment and Community Self-Determination in Sacramento is a hardcover by historian Lorena V Márquez, listed in All Books as sku-966934069. It follows the Chicana/o Movement in Sacramento during the 1960s and 1970s through the work of everyday people seeking lasting change.

Márquez describes how people from different cultural backgrounds and generations resisted oppression in schools, workplaces and their communities, often when their families, homes or livelihoods were at risk. She examines barrio residents' resistance to prevailing ideas about desegregation; Sacramento-area workers' first legal victory against canneries for discrimination against brown and black workers and women; and the community's establishment of the nation's first accredited Chicana/o and Native American community college.

The book shows how the movement brought working poor people, immigrants, undocumented people and those with little formal education into the fight for their rights.