Race and Class in the Southwest and Other Essays

Rodolfo Torres, a visiting scholar at the Center for Research on Social Change, is a co-editor of a newly published volume of essays by Mario Barrera, titled Race and Class in the Southwest and Other Essays. A modern classic of Chicano studies, the essay collection focuses on the economic foundations of inequality as they have affected Chicanos in the Southwest from the Mexican-American War to the present. The editors, Torres and William I. Robinson, provide an important historical and contextual introduction to the work that brings the scholarship into contemporary conversation with further theoretical development.