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No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed : The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement /

Orozco, Cynthia E.

No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed : The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement / Cynthia E. Orozco. - 1 online resource (330 p.)

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- PART ONE Society and Ideology -- ONE The Mexican Colony of South Texas -- TWO Ideological Origins of the Movement -- PART TWO Politics -- THREE Rise of a Movement -- FOUR Founding Fathers -- FIVE The Harlingen Convention of 1927 -- SIX LULAC’s Founding -- PART THREE Theory and Methodology -- SEVEN The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement -- EIGHT No Women Allowed? -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDICES -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to Chicano nationalist standards of the late 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on extensive archival research, including the personal papers of Alonso S. Perales and Adela Sloss-Vento, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed presents the history of LULAC in a new light, restoring its early twentieth-century context. Cynthia Orozco also provides evidence that perceptions of LULAC as a petite bourgeoisie, assimilationist, conservative, anti-Mexican, anti-working class organization belie the realities of the group's early activism. Supplemented by oral history, this sweeping study probes LULAC's predecessors, such as the Order Sons of America, blending historiography and cultural studies. Against a backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, World War I, gender discrimination, and racial segregation, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed recasts LULAC at the forefront of civil rights movements in America.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780292793439

10.7560/721098 doi


Civil rights movements--History--Texas--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--United States--20th century.
Mexican American women--Social conditions--Texas--20th century.
Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History--Texas--20th century.
Mexican Americans--Social conditions--Texas--20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.