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The Mexican American Experience in Texas
Martha Menchaca
其他書名
Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality
出版
University of Texas Press
, 2022
主題
HISTORY / General
ISBN
1477324380
9781477324387
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5HJvzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Martha Menchaca begins with the Spanish settlement of Texas, exploring how Mexican Americans' racial heritage limited their incorporation into society after the territory's annexation. She then illustrates their political struggles in the nineteenth century as they tried to assert their legal rights of citizenship and retain possession of their land, and goes on to explore their fight, in the twentieth century, against educational segregation, jury exclusion, and housing covenants. It was only in 1967, she shows, that the collective pressure placed on the state government by Mexican American and African American activists led to the beginning of desegregation. Menchaca concludes with a look at the crucial role that Mexican Americans have played in national politics, education, philanthropy, and culture, while acknowledging the important work remaining to be done in the struggle for equality"--