The Illusion of Inclusion : : The Untold Political Story of San Antonio / / Rodolfo Rosales.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rosales, Rodolfo,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: CMAS History, Culture, and Society Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

To many observers, the 1981 election of Henry Cisneros as mayor of San Antonio, Texas, represented the culminating victory in the Chicano community's decades-long struggle for inclusion in the city's political life. Yet, nearly twenty years later, inclusion is still largely an illusion for many working-class and poor Chicanas and Chicanos, since business interests continue to set the city's political and economic priorities. In this book, Rodolfo Rosales offers the first in-depth history of the Chicano community's struggle for inclusion in the political life of San Antonio during the years 1951 to 1991, drawn from interviews with key participants as well as archival research. He focuses on the political and organizational activities of the Chicano middle class in the context of post-World War II municipal reform and how it led ultimately to independent political representation for the Chicano community. Of special interest is his extended discussion of the role of Chicana middle-class women as they gained greater political visibility in the 1980s.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 / Introduction -- 2 / Posing the Correct Questions -- Part One. The Partisan Era -- 3 / The Shaping of a Political Agenda and Its Consequences -- 4 / Coalition Politics: Trench Political Warfare -- Part Two. A Period of Transition -- 5 / The Changing of the Guard -- 6 / The Transitional Period -- Part Three. Political Pluralism and Its Consequences -- 7 / Style and Strategy in San Antonio Politics -- 8 / The Cultural Is Political; the Political Is Cultural -- 9 / The Question of Inclusion: A Final Note -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index