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Testimonio : a documentary history of the Mexican American struggle for civil rights / edited by F. Arturo Rosales
- Published
- Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, 2000.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 425 pages).
- Additional Creators
- Rosales, Francisco A. (Francisco Arturo)
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- I. Nineteenth-Century Mexican in the Southwest and Civil Rights -- II. "The Brown Scare": The Mexican Revolution as a Source of Conflict -- III. World War I and Massive Immigration in the 1920s -- IV. Immigrant Mobilization -- V. Mexican Government and EI Medico de Afuera -- VI. Mexican American Mobilization -- VII. Defense in the Workplace -- VIII. Catalysts of the Chicano Movement: Farm Worker Organizers and Land Grant Crusaders -- IX. Chicanismo, Youth, and La Raza Unida Party.
- Summary
- Historical documents help chronicle the struggle of Mexican Americans for equal civil rights in the United States from the early 1800s through the modern era, with individual prefaces for each document and suggestions for further reading.
- Subject(s)
- Mexican Americans—Civil rights—History—Sources
- Civil rights movements—United States—History—Sources
- Américains d'origine mexicaine—Droits—Histoire—Sources
- Mouvements des droits de l'homme—États-Unis—Histoire—Sources
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Ethnic Studies—Hispanic American Studies
- Civil rights movements
- Ethnic relations
- Mexican Americans—Civil rights
- United States—Ethnic relations—Sources
- États-Unis—Relations interethniques—Sources
- United States
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781611923025 (electronic bk.)
1611923026 (electronic bk.)
9781611927665
1611927668
1558852999 (alk. paper)
9781558852990 (alk. paper) - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-411) and index.
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