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Vicente Ximenes, LBJ's Great Society, and Mexican American civil rights rhetoric /
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&#...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.