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Albert A. Peña Jr. : Dean of Chicano Politics /
"The political and social impact that Albert A. Peña Jr. had on the lives of Mexican Americans, and later Chicanos, is by all counts immeasurable. However, in part because Chicano biography has traditionally been a neglected research area among academics generally and Chicano Studies scholars...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. The early years: family and formation
- The family and young Albert Jr.
- Peña, the sailor man
- Peña Jr., the lawyer
- Part II. The making of a political leader
- First school desegregation cases
- Barrio presidential politics
- El Comisionado, our man downtown
- The commissioner years, 1957-1960
- Part III. Chicano nation-building
- Viva Kennedy clubs
- PASO and Cristal's Los Cinco Candidatos
- The commissioner years, 1965-1972
- MALDEF: Peña's or Tijerina's?
- Loss of power
- Politics of the palace
- Part IV. Second career
- All rise! Judge Peña presiding
- The end of public life
- Who caused the injury or assault?
- Part V. The final years
- Second retirement.