Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Race, Class, and Activism 1. Race and Political Activism 2. Differential Racialization in Southern California 3. The Politicization of the Third World Left Part II. The Third World Left 4. Serving the People and Vanguard Politics: The Formation of the Third World Left in Los Angeles 5. Ideologies of Nation, Class, and Race in the Third World Left 6. The Politics of Solidarity: Interethnic Relations in the Third World Left 7. Patriarchy and Revolution: Gender Relations in the Third World Left 8. The Third World Left Today and Contemporary Activism Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Laura Pulido is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest (1996).

Reviews

"No other work deals in such detail with the complex relationships between racial nationalism and the radical left during that period. A powerful and resonant achievement. Highly recommended!"