No Mexicans, Women, Or Dogs Allowed - The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

Informationen zum Autor By Cynthia E. Orozco Klappentext The first fully comprehensive study of the origins of the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) and its precursors, incorporating race, class, gender, and citizenship to create bold new understandings of a pivotal period of activism. Zusammenfassung The first fully comprehensive study of the origins of the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) and its precursors, incorporating race, class, gender, and citizenship to create bold new understandings of a pivotal period of activism. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Society and Ideology 1. The Mexican Colony of South Texas2. Ideological Origins of the MovementPart Two: Politics 3. Rise of a Movement4. Founding Fathers5. The Harlingen Convention of 1927: No Mexicans Allowed6. LULAC's FoundingPart Three: Theory and Methodology 7. The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement8. No Women Allowed?ConclusionAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Orozco, Cynthia E. Orozco
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9780292721326
• ISBN: 978-0-292-72132-6
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: University of Texas Press
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology