Societal Suicide - by Julián Segura Camacho (Paperback)

About the Book

Societal Suicide is a cultural-racial analysis of the enduring legacy called Animus Americana, which affects the psyche of Mexicans in the United States, specifically Los Angeles. This work is a compilation of factors, experiences, and realities that make a person suicidal bot...

Book Synopsis

Societal Suicide is a cultural-racial analysis of the enduring legacy called Animus Americana, which affects the psyche of Mexicans in the United States, specifically Los Angeles. This work is a compilation of factors, experiences, and realities that make a person suicidal both from a societal and familial perspective. This timely and deeply personal exploration into the roots of suicidal tendencies in Mexicans living in the United States is a revealing study of culture, assimilation, social pressures, and identity.

Review Quotes

A toda madre.

As a native Angelino, Julian Camacho is not afraid to shine light on the current political and social issues affecting Mexicans north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Based on his life experience, Camacho dares to analyze and criticize the negative factors that continue to hinder Mexicans in the United States. Camacho's work reveals how discrimination and repression continue to affect Mexicans in Los Angeles. Camacho's dark picture of what the future holds will provoke readers to question their own identity and agency in America.

The strength of [Camacho's] work is that it is raw, courageous, and personal.

About the Author

Julián Segura Camacho is a Lecturer in Chicano Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He holds M.A.'s in Latin American Studies and Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles and is the author of the Chicano Treatise from the University Press of America.