New York, NY - November 29, 2006 -Methodically researched and passionately written, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, by Rodolfo Acuņa , is the definitive book on the subject of Mexican-American history. The sixth edition of this best-selling work will be published by Pearson Longman on Dec. 1, 2006.

Acuņa, one of the most influential and highly-regarded scholars of Chicano history and Ethnic Studies, offers a comprehensive overview of the major developments and incidents in Mexican history, and provides a revealing look at how race, gender, and class helped to forge Chicano identity through the ages.

Beginning with the Mesoamerican civilizations before the 1519 Spanish invasion, Occupied America continues through Mexico's conquests as a developing nation, and ends with an examination of immigration, labor, education, and equality issues during the last 100 years.

The sixth edition includes a new preface; a guide to Web sites showing students how to make and develop timelines to help lend context to important incidents in Chicano history; and a "Map Room" at the end of the text, providing students with Web addresses so they can trace migrations of peoples across the years and throughout the Americas.

"Occupied America is one of the landmark scholarly works in Chicano Studies," said Manuel Figueroa-Unda, Professor, Chicano Latino Studies Department, California State University-Fresno. "Since the first edition, Acuņa's efforts to provide a systematic and well documented history of Mexican-Americans in the Southwest have provided the framework for every Chicano Studies course in American universities, as well as in Mexican institutions."

"This book is still, and will continue to be, the gold standard from which other Chicano historical textbooks will be measured," said Alexandro Gradilla, Professor of Chicano Studies, California State University-Fullerton.

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