Colored Men And Hombres Aquí: Hernandez V. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican American Lawyering (Hispanic Civil Rights Series) 1558854762, 9781558854765

Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist 9781477319888

The essayist Adela Sloss-Vento (1901–1998) was a powerhouse of activism in South Texas’s Lower Rio Grande Valley through

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Texas Mexican Americans and Postwar Civil Rights 9780292767546

After World War II, Mexican American veterans returned home to lead the civil rights struggles of the fifties, sixties,

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Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas 9781477320938

Language has long functioned as a signifier of power in the United States. In Texas, as elsewhere in the Southwest, ethn

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Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature 9780292793538

The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerfu

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World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights 9780292794573

World War II marked a turning point for Mexican Americans that fundamentally changed their expectations about how they s

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Encyclopedia of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement 9780313088636, 9780313304255

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Border Renaissance : The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature [1 ed.] 9780292793538, 9780292719781

The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerfu

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No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement 9780292793439

Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged ac

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Vicente Ximenes, LBJ's Great Society, and Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric [1 ed.] 9780809336401, 9780809336395

Beginning as a grassroots organizer in the 1950s, Vicente Ximenes was at the forefront of the movement for Mexican Ameri

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Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas 9781477323809

Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth-century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversati

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