Claiming citizenship : Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas /

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"Claiming Citizenship spotlights a community where Mexican Americans, regardless of social class, embraced a common ideology and worked for access to the full rights of citizenship without confrontation or radicalization. Victoria, Texas, is a small city with a sizable Mexican-descent populatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Quiroz, Anthony, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Fronteras series ; no. 3.
Subjects:
Mexican Americans > Texas > Australia > Victoria > Politics and government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Ethnic relations > Political aspects
Mexican Americans > Politics and government
Victoria (Tex.) > Ethnic relations > Political aspects.
Texas > Victoria
Texas
Chicanos.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From Mexican colony to Anglo stronghold: an overview of two centuries of victoria's history
  • "For God, for country, for home": the Catholic church and Mexican American identity formation
  • Creating loyal citizens: the relationship between Mexican Americans and the victoria independent school district
  • "By the power of reason": the role of community-based Mexican American organization on identity formation, 1940-85
  • Strength through adversity: struggles for political inclusion.

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