Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series – serie
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Traqueros
Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, 1870–1930
Häftad, 2016
283 kr
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Perhaps no other industrial technology changed thecourse of Mexican history in the United States andMexico as much as the arrival of the railroads. Tensof thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroadsin the United States, especially in the Southwest andMidwest. Extensive Mexican American …
Warriors for Social Justice Volume 12
Maria Jimenez of Houston and Mexican American Activists
Inbunden, 2025
481 kr
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Warriors for Social Justice examines the contributions of Mexican American activists to the nation’s democratic values by concentrating on the activism of Maria JimÉnez (1950–2020) in Houston, Texas. Linda J. Quintanilla documents how JimÉnez and other activists advanced social justice by promoting …
Frontera Freeways Volume 13
Highway Building and Displacement in El Paso, Texas
Inbunden, 2025
352 kr
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The history of how the freeways of El Paso, Texas, were constructed, who lobbied for them to be built, who was displaced, and who opposed them, is largely unknown. Regional studies of highway building have been overlooked in most studies of Mexican American history. As in other Mexican American …
Yo Soy Volume 14
From a Migrant Field Worker to a University Professor
Inbunden, 2025
422 kr
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Yo Soy is a memoir of Roberto E. Villarreal’s life struggle for social justice and equality and a reclamation of his ancestry, language, and culture, forbidden by the Texas state school policies during his childhood in the 1930s. Racism, bigotry, violence, and subordination formed a shell difficult …
Roots of Latino Urban Agency
Av Sharon A. Navarro, Rodolfo Rosales
Inbunden, 2013
286 kr
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The essays selected in this study collectively suggest that political agency can encompass everything from voting, lobbying, networking, grassroots organizing, and mobilization, to dramatic protest.
Three Decades of Engendering History
Selected Works of Antonia I. Castañeda
Av Antonia I. Castaneda, Linda Heidenreich
Inbunden, 2014
467 kr
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Three Decades of Engendering History collects ten of Antonia I. Castañeda’s best articles, including the widely circulated article “Engendering the History of Alta California, 1769–1848,” in which Castañeda took a direct and honest look at sex and gender relations in colonial California, exposing …
Three Decades of Engendering History
Selected Works of Antonia I. Castañeda
Av Antonia I. Castaneda, Linda Heidenreich
Häftad, 2014
223 kr
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Three Decades of Engendering History collects ten of Antonia I. Castañeda’s best articles, including the widely circulated article “Engendering the History of Alta California, 1769–1848,” in which Castañeda took a direct and honest look at sex and gender relations in colonial California, exposing …
Raza Rising
Chicanos in North Texas
Inbunden, 2016
352 kr
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Based on articles written for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, author Richard J. Gonzales draws onhis educational, inner-city, and professional lifeexperiences to weave eyewitness testimony intoissues facing Chicanos, including economic, health,education, criminal justice, politics, immigration,and …
Contested Policy
The Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in the United States, 1960-2001
Häftad, 2020
156 kr
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“San Miguel provides the complete history of the rise and fall of federal bilingual education policy and details how the English-only movement defeated it at the federal level, only to continue the fight state-by-state. This is a clearly written, controlled overview of a complicated public policy …
Bell Ringer Volume 11
Inbunden, 2022
363 kr
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This is the story of Victor Rodriguez, star track athlete and San Antonio educator. From his earliest days in South Texas in the 1940s he broke many barriers. As a football player and track star he set records and won trophies at Edna High School, at Victoria College, and at North Texas State …
Americo Paredes Volume 5
In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography
Häftad, 2021
215 kr
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AmÉrico Paredes (1915-1999) was a folklorist, scholar, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who is widely acknowledged as one of the founding scholars of Chicano Studies. He was a brilliant teacher and prolific writer who championed the preservation of border culture and history. With …
