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Informationen zum Autor Arnoldo Carlos Vento, PhD, is a bi-lingual, bi-cultural scholar who experienced early the humiliation of segregation. Fortunate to have had the guidance and wisdom of activist Adela Sloss-Vento, he has followed her example to become an international multi-disciplinary scholar and author in multiple areas covering themes and issues relevant to society and its evolution. Klappentext This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer. It is only through this archive that documentation becomes available of her participation in this unknown and unpublicized civil rights movement. It is a realistic portrayal of an exclusionist semi-colonial society that the reader discovers; a Jim Crow type of political and racial existence against all people of Mexican descent. It represents Sloss-Vento's lifelong struggle for economic and social equality. Adela Sloss-Vento's role as a Civil Rights pioneer antedates Dr. Anna Pauline Murray by eight years and Martin Luther King by twenty-eight years. She places her mark in history as a leader, not only for the first seminal Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement of Texas but the first woman and voice in an early, if not the earliest Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Zusammenfassung The book is a socio-political probe into South Texas society's politics of exclusion! exploitation! immigration! and political cronyism. It chronicles the life of Adela Sloss-Vento for economic! social! and political equality of people of Mexican descent particularly on themes of racism! bilingualism! Immigration! political ethics! feminism! family! and Christian values. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Purpose, Goals, and Family HistoryAcknowledgments Adela Sloss-Vento: A Woman Of and Before Her Times, Roberto Dr. Cintli RodríguezPart I: The San Juan Phase: Origins and the Formation of a Political ActivistPart II: The Edinburg Phase: Work, Family and Political ActivismPart III: Archival LiteratureSelected EssaysSelected Excerpts: Newspaper ArticlesSelected Letters: 1941-1992Appendix I: San Juan, Texas: Socio-Cultural-Political BackgroundAppendix II: Biographical AddendaSuggested Readings...
