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.

"A refreshing and pathbreaking view of the roots of Mexican American social movement organizing in Texas with new insights on the struggles of women to participate and define their roles in this social movement." Devon Pena, University of Washington

• 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

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.

"A refreshing and pathbreaking view of the roots of Mexican American social movement organizing in Texas with new insights on the struggles of women to participate and define their roles in this social movement." Devon Pena, University of Washington

• 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

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.

"A refreshing and pathbreaking view of the roots of Mexican American social movement organizing in Texas with new insights on the struggles of women to participate and define their roles in this social movement." Devon Pena, University of Washington

• 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