Agent of Change : : Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist / / Cynthia E. Orozco.
The essayist Adela Sloss-Vento (1901–1998) was a powerhouse of activism in South Texas’s Lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. At last presenting the full story of Sloss-Vento’s achi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 p.) :; 75 b&w photos |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Across Time
- Chapter 1. Civil Rights Leader, Public Intellectual, and Feminist
- Chapter 2. The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, 1920–1950
- Chapter 3. The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, 1950–1963
- Chapter 4. The Chicano Movement of 1963–1978 and Beyond
- Part II. Personas
- Chapter 5. Feminist in the Gendered Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
- Chapter 6. Public Intellectual
- Chapter 7. Democrat in the United States and Democrat for Mexico
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index