Book Description
for Viva La Raza! by Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez
From The Jane Addams Children's Book Award
This manifesto, as the co-authors describe it, recounts the history of Chicanos through the eyes of the people themselves. La Raza, meaning "the race," refers to people of both Indian and Spanish descent. Chapters cover a span of history from the time of la Raza's Indio ancestors all the way to the 1970's when youth were organizing community and responding to discrimination in their own lives.
The Jane Addams Children’s Book Award: Honoring Peace and Social Justice in Children’s Books Since 1953. © Scarecrow Press, 2013. Used with permission.