"La Gente provides a much-needed addition to Chicana/o movement historiography by bringing attention to the movement in Northern California and by elevating the significant work of parents, students, and labor organizers. No charismatic leaders, no famous organizations, just ordinary people doing their best to give their fellow workers, students, and their children a chance to thrive in a world that consistently dehumanized them. This book moves us closer to a much bigger and broader vision of the freedom politics that emerged out of the Chicana/o movement."—Felipe Hinojosa, Pacific Historical Review
"(This book is) a marvelous study of the Chicana/o movement in Sacramento that poses questions about self-determination, activism, and everyday people’s political participation. La Gente is a significant contribution to the historiography of the Chicana/o movement."—Erik Bernardino, Journal of American Ethnic History
“La Gente highlights unexplored sites of struggle in the underexplored Sacramento and Northern California region—vital to the field of Chicano/a/x and civil rights history. More importantly, it reveals that working poor men and women—often immigrants and barrio residents—were part and parcel to the movement. Class, legal status, and gender, the book reminds, must be centered to reveal the heterogeneous political interests, tensions, and possibilities at stake within struggles for racial justice.”—Jimmy Patiño, author of Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego— -