FBI Files on Mexicans and Chicanos, 1940-1980 is a multi-chapter book that examines the FBI files on multiple, well known Mexican and Chicanos, as well as the Texas Farm Workers Union and the American G.I. Forum and, the Zoot Suit police riots in Los Angeles, California during the 1940s.

Chapter 1: Luisa Moreno, The Guatemalan MexicanChapter 2: Ernesto Galarza, the first Chicano Activist ScholarChapter 3: Ramón “Raymond” Telles, First Chicano Ambassador of the United States, and his wife, Delfina NavarroChapter 4: Salvador Buruel Castro of the Los Angeles School District Student Walkouts of 1968Chapter 5: Balde from San Benito, Texas aka Freddy FenderChapter 6: Francisco “Pancho” MedranoChapter 7: The American G. I. Forum and Joe Molina’s CaseChapter 8: The Border Coverage Program, the U.S. Intervention in Mexico’s Internal Affairs

“In this well-researched and detailed book, José Angel Gutiérrez, as a scholar and a fearless leader for decades on behalf of Chicanas and Chicanos in the U.S., does an excellent job in exposing the civil/human rights abuses of the American government in general and oppressive FBI apparatus in particular against los de abajo. As a self-described Chicano militant, the author exposes a contradiction of the FBI’s racist surveillance against brown people, where the gaze of Big Brother doesn’t differentiate in spying on righteous militants, aspiring for radical/structural transformations, versus moderate Mexican Americans and groups, seeking reformist changes.”