Read more
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
About the author
Cynthia E. Orozco chairs the History and Humanities Department at Eastern New Mexico University in Ruidoso, where she teaches U.S. history, Western civilization, and world humanities. An editor of
Mexican Americans in Texas History and associate editor of
Latinas in the United States, an Historical Encyclopedia, she is also a small businesswoman, served as campaign manager of the Leo Martinez congressional race in New Mexico, was appointed by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to the New Mexico Humanities Council, and was president of LULAC in Ruidoso.
