Published books

La Segunda Guerra Mundial terminó con una promesa. Cientos de miles de mexicoamericanos habían servido en uniforme y regresaron decididos a que sus hijos no sufrieran la discriminación que ellos habían vivido.

Este libro sigue a las familias mexicoamericanas desde 1945 hasta finales de la década de 1960: a los tribunales federales para acabar con las «escuelas mexicanas», a los juzgados para impugnar los jurados formados solo por blancos, y a las urnas para exigir representación.

Incluye:
- Mendez v. Westminster y Hernandez v. Texas, casos que abrieron camino a Brown v. Board of Education
- El American G.I. Forum, el caso de Felix Longoria y la Organización de Servicio Comunitario
- La guerra de Corea y sus héroes mexicoamericanos…

A mediados de la década de 1960, las leyes habían cambiado, pero la vida diaria no. En los viñedos de California, los trabajadores del campo no tenían derecho a un sindicato. En las preparatorias del Este de Los Ángeles, más de la mitad de los estudiantes mexicoamericanos no llegaban a graduarse.

Este libro cuenta cómo los trabajadores del campo y los estudiantes decidieron cambiar esas condiciones:
- Larry Itliong y los manongs filipinos que iniciaron la huelga de la uva de Delano
- César Chávez, Dolores Huerta y el nacimiento de los Trabajadores Agrícolas Unidos
- El boicot nacional a la uva y el origen de «Sí, se puede»
- Las mujeres que encabezaron huelgas: las enlatadoras, Empire Zinc, Farah y Watsonville…

El 29 de agosto de 1970, decenas de miles de personas marcharon pacíficamente por el bulevar Whittier, en el Este de Los Ángeles, contra la guerra de Vietnam. Al final de la tarde, el mitin había sido disuelto con gas lacrimógeno y había tres muertos. Uno de ellos era Rubén Salazar, el periodista mexicoamericano más destacado del país.

Este último libro de la serie narra ese día y los años que lo rodearon:
- Vietnam y el sacrificio desigual: las bajas latinas y los héroes mexicoamericanos
- El movimiento nacional contra la guerra, de los teach-ins a Kent State y Jackson State
- Los Boinas Cafés, la Clínica Gratuita El Barrio y Las Adelitas de Aztlán
- La Moratoria Chicana y la muerte de Rubén Salazar, con las preguntas que siguen sin respuesta…

This book outlines a national strategy to build electric cars, buses, delivery vans, freight trucks, construction equipment, farm machines, industrial systems, batteries, components, and cleaner aircraft. Public investment should rebuild production capacity while creating safe and well-paid careers.

The chapters connect manufacturing with research in semiconductors, advanced batteries, robotics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, biotechnology, medical equipment, materials science, aerospace, and modern production. Universities, community colleges, federal laboratories, medical centers, and regional institutes all have a role.…

Infrastructure cannot function without communications and trained people. This book treats high-speed internet as an essential public system and explains why government must rebuild its own capacity to plan, inspect, operate, maintain, and account for major investments.

The chapters address rural broadband, affordability, public access, digital skills, cybersecurity, privacy, engineers, inspectors, planners, scientists, nurses, teachers, maintenance crews, grant managers, and other public employees. They also connect public purchasing and local hiring with resilient American supply chains.…

This book brings the national rebuilding program together with a proposed system of fair taxation and stronger democratic control over concentrated corporate power. The authors propose a 28 percent rate on corporate profits and investment income, 33 percent on earnings above $500,000, 22 percent below $100,000, and 15 percent at $50,000 or less, subject to precise legislative definitions and tax brackets.

The chapters call for stronger antitrust enforcement, merger review, competitive procurement, public audits, whistleblower protection, penalties for fraud and price fixing, and fair investment in rural, tribal, territorial, low-income, and historically excluded communities.…

The Fossil Fuel Privilege examines how public money, public lands, tax rules, and weak liability standards can shift the costs of energy production onto taxpayers and communities. It explains direct subsidies, tax expenditures, reduced royalties, credit guarantees, and other forms of public support.

The book follows the public costs of fossil-fuel disasters, abandoned wells and mines, pollution, health damage, and unequal exposure. It distinguishes measured government spending from broader social costs while showing how private gains can be concentrated and long-term risks dispersed across generations.…

The Climate Disaster Bill explains how the costs of extreme weather, floods, heat, drought, wildfire, hurricanes, and coastal risk increasingly reach taxpayers, families, and local governments. It separates daily weather from long-term climate patterns and explains how scientists evaluate attribution and risk.

The book examines disaster response, insurance losses, public rebuilding, damaged infrastructure, health costs, and the unequal burdens placed on vulnerable communities. It also considers how oil dependence and energy security connect fossil-fuel policy with military spending and international conflict.…

The Fifteen-Year Transition presents a practical path for reducing fossil-fuel dependence while protecting workers, producing communities, taxpayers, and reliable energy service. It examines how lobbying, campaign spending, trade associations, litigation, and weak enforcement can delay reforms that serve the public interest.

The book proposes stronger transparency, fair taxation, cleanup obligations, worker protections, collective bargaining, domestic manufacturing, and public investment. It calls for batteries, wind, solar power, a modern electrical grid, hybrid and electric machinery, cleaner trucks and cars, and research into lower-emission aviation and heavy equipment.…

From the Depression-era removals of Mexican families to the Sleepy Lagoon case and Zoot Suit Riots, this first volume traces the roots of Chicano civil rights. It follows workers, families, and communities as they challenged exclusion and fought for equal citizenship.