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Book Review: The Mexican-Americans: An Awakening Minority

The Mexican-Americans: An Awakening Minority is a collection of brief studies within a historical framework on the racial, cultural, educational, economic, and political development of Mexican Americans in the United States. In his preface, Manuel P. Servin says that there has been a lack of scholarly literature about his people and a need for historical studies that can lead to an understanding of their contemporary role. Each chapter of the book begins by briefly setting the tone and the mood for an introduction to the Mexican-American lifestyle. Servin is a social worker and historian, but his efforts in compiling these studies seem far from creative. His book is almost a total loss. It is painful and depressing to read, and even its title has negative connotations about the Mexican American. Only three of the thirteen contributors have Spanish surnames. Again, do we need Anglos to write about Mexican Americans when there are numerous and capable Chicano writers available? Servin's publication is almost purely academic. The research, in general, scarcely relates to the streets of the barrio or the factories in the field. There is little to indicate that the writers had contact with Mexican Americans, and the book apparently was the product of a "publish or perish syndrome" at the University of Southern California. Six studies from the university are represented. Incidentally, the University of Southern California is a private university in the midst of the second largest concentration of Spanish-speaking persons in the United States. Although it receives a large number of federal grants, Chicano students are systematically excluded because of tuition and because of admissions standards. Of approximately fourteen hundred social workers who have been granted master's degrees by its school of social work, slightly over forty have Spanish surnames. Could these facts explain the lack among the Chicanos