Mexican Inclusion : The Origins of Anti-Discrimination Policy in Texas and the Southwest /
Immigration across the US-Mexican border may currently be a hot topic, but it is hardly a new one. Labor issues and civil rights have been interwoven with the history of the region since at least the time of the Mexican-American War, and the twentieth century witnessed recurrent political battles su...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2012.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Transnational networks and the Fair Employment Practices Committee: Mexican consuls, FEPC officials, and Mexican American civil rights leaders come together
- Identifying and exploring: discovering people of Mexican origin
- State building on the ground: the institutional development of the FEPC and people of Mexican origin
- Good neighbors and good citizens: people of Mexican origin and the FEPC
- Laboratories of democracy?: people of Mexican origin and fair employment in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas
- Conclusion.