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"Leaders of the Mexican American Generation explores the lives of a wide range of influential members of the US Mexican American community between 1920 and 1965 who paved the way for major changes in their social, political, and economic status within the United States. Including feminist Alice...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quiroz, Anthony, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2014]
Temas:
1900-1999
Political activists > United States > Biography.
Social reformers > United States > Biography.
Intellectuals > United States > Biography.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Biography.
Mexican Americans > Politics and government > 20th century.
Activistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Réformateurs sociaux > États-Unis > Biographies.
Intellectuels > États-Unis > Biographies.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Droits > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Biographies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Intellectuals.
Mexican Americans.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights.
Mexican Americans > Politics and government.
Political activists.
Race relations.
Social reformers.
Southwest, New > Race relations > History > 20th century.
États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
New Southwest.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreward / Arnoldo De León
  • Preface
  • Introduction / Anthony Quiroz
  • Intellectuals and ethnic consciousness
  • José de la Luz Sáenz: experiences and autobiographical consciousness / Emilio Zamora
  • Alice Dickerson Montemayor: feminism and Mexican American politics in the 1930s / Cynthia E. Orozco
  • Alonso S. Perales: the voice and visions of a citizen intellectual / Richard A. Garcia
  • Jovita González Mireles: Texas folklorist, historian, educator / María Eugenia Cotera
  • Of poetics and politics: the border journeys of Luisa Moreno / Vicki L. Ruiz
  • Separate Tejano/Texans worlds: the Félix Longoria controversy, racism, and patriotism in post-WWII South Texas / Patrick J. Carroll
  • Legal, political, and labor activists
  • Dr. Héctor Pérez García: giant of the twentieth century / Carl Allsup
  • " I can see no alternative except to battle it out in court: : Gus García and the spirit of the Mexican American generation / Anthony Quiroz
  • Mr. LULAC: the fabulous life of John J. Herrera / Thomas H. Kreneck
  • Vicente Ximenes and LBJ's great society: the rhetorical imagination of the American GI Forum / Michelle Hall Kells
  • Ralph Estrada and the war against racial prejudice in Arizona / Laura K. Muñoz
  • "Vale más la revolución que viene" : Ernesto Galarza and transnational scholar activism / Julie Leininger Pycior
  • Edward R. Roybal: latino political pioneer and coalition builder / Kenneth C. Burt
  • Conclusion / Anthony Quiroz
  • List of contributors
  • Index.

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