1. Why did Mexicans volunteer for service during World War II?
2. What role did Mexican women play in the home front during the war?
3. What impact did urban living have on Mexicans?
4. Who were the pachucos? How did Mexicans in Mexico like Octavio Paz view the
Mexican American pachucos?
5. Why is the Sleep Lagoon case important for Mexican American history?
6. What were the "Zoot Suit Riots"?
7. What was the Bracero Program?
8. What was Operation Wetback?
9. How does Gonzales define the "Mexican American generation"? How might it contrast
with the earlier, "Immigrant Generation"?
10. Why have some Chicano (Mexican American) militants been "hard" on groups like
LULAC? What was LULAC's biggest accomplishment?
11. Compare LULAC and El Congreso. How did their politics differ?
12. What was the GI Forum concerned with?
Chapter 8.
1.How did the black civil rights movement influence the Chicano movement?
2. What was Cesar Chavez and the UFW 's strategy for organizing migrant workers
during the Delano strike?
3. Why did some criticize Chavez's politics?
4. How did Tijerina's tactics contrast with those of Chavez?
5. What was La Raza Unida (The United Race)?
6. What were Chicano students demanding? What were the "blowouts"?
7. What issues motivated Chicana activism?