Vicente Ximenes, LBJ's Great Society, and Mexican American civil rights rhetoric /

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Beginning as a grassroots organizer in the 1950s, Vicente Ximenes was at the forefront of the movement for Mexican American civil rights through three presidential administrations, joining Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and later emerging as one of the highest-ranking appointees in Johnson&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kells, Michelle Hall (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Ximenes, Vicente, > 1919-2014 > Oratory.
Ximenes, Vicente, > 1919-2014 > Influence.
1900-1999
Mexican Americans > Politics and government > 20th century.
Chicano movement > History > 20th century.
Political activists > United States > Biography.
Mexican Americans > Biography.
Chicano movement > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Activistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Biographies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Chicano movement
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans > Politics and government
Oratory
Political activists
United States
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the cultural rhetorical ecology of the Mexican American civil rights movement
  • "Chente": interrogating histories, negotiating rhetorics
  • New Mexico and the political imagination of the American GI Forum
  • The public rhetoric of Vicente Ximenes: citizen scholars and Mexican American civil rights activism
  • Latinidad: the question of democracy and the Americas
  • Constructing the "Great Society": the Topoi of the 1967 El Paso Hearings
  • Public memory and the reconstruction of history: the 1972 Civil Rights Symposium
  • Conclusion: Vicente Ximenes' engaging public rhetoric, cultural ecologies, and civic literacies in the twenty-first century.

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