Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dissent and the American Culture of Mobility -- Part 1. The Roots of Postwar Dissent and the Counterculture -- 1. "No Fear Like Invasion": Movement, Absorption, and Stasis Horror in the Beat Vision -- 2. "With Imperious Eye": Kerouac's Fellaheen Western -- 3. Civitas and Its Discontents: The Lone Hunter Pleads the Fourth -- Part 2. The Americano Narrative: Postwar Mexican American Dissent and Community -- 4. Historian with a Sour Stomach: Zeta's Americano Journey -- 5. Mapping el Movimiento: Somewhere between América and Aztlan -- 6. Arriving at el Pueblo Libre: The Insistence of Americanismo -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.