The Mexican American Experience in Texas : : Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality / / Martha Menchaca.
For hundreds of years, Mexican Americans in Texas have fought against political oppression and exclusion—in courtrooms, in schools, at the ballot box, and beyond. Through a detailed exploration of this long battle for equality, this book illuminates critical moments of both struggle and triumph in t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Texas Bookshelf
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 25 b&w photos |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Pobladores and the Casta System
- 2 New Racial Structures: Citizenship and Land Conflicts
- 3 Violence and Segregation, 1877–1927
- 4 Challenging Segregation, 1927–1948
- 5 The Path to Desegregation, 1948–1962
- 6 Institutional Desegregation, Social Movement Pressures, and the Chicano Movement
- 7 Mexican American Social Mobility and Immigration
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index