Volume 13, Number 11 · December 18, 1969
Outcasts
By Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Tijerina and the Courthouse Raid
by Peter Nabokov
University of New Mexico Press, 285 pp., $6.95
La Raza: The Mexican-Americans (to be published in January)
by Stan Steiner
Harper & Row, 432 pp., $8.50
Uprooted Children The Early Life of Migrant Farm Workers (to be published in February)
by Robert Coles
University of Pittsburgh Press, 100 pp., $3.95
To call Peter Nabokov's book on Reies Tijerina and his curious and moving career superb—which it is—is in fact to underrate it, or at least to miss the point of its manifold excellence. The complexities of his subject require of Mr. Nabokov a high degree of mastery in several distinct genres. Tijerina and the Courthouse Raid is centrally the history of a social movement: the formation and development, under Tijerina's leadership, of the Alianza Federal de los Pueblos Libres—the Federation of Free City States—and of the remarkable events in which the Alianza has been involved in its organizing of so called 'Mexican-Americans' in the state of New Mexico.
Review, 4291 words
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