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Redeeming La Raza : transborder modernity, race, respectability, and rights /

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Redeeming La Raza examines the gendered and class-conscious political activism of Mexican-origin people in Texas from 1900 to 1950. In particular, it questions the intergenerational agency of Mexicans and Mexican Americans who subscribed to particular race-ethnic, class and gender ideologies as they...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: González, Gabriela (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Mexican Americans > Texas > Politics and government > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Political activity > Texas.
Mexican Americans > Texas > Biography.
Mexicans > Texas > History > 20th century.
Transnationalism > Political aspects > Texas > History > 20th century.
Texas, South > Politics and government > 20th century.
Mexican-American Border Region > Politics and government > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Redeeming La Raza in the world of two flags entwined
  • Modernizing Mexico, 1900-1929
  • Social change, cultural redemption, and social stability: the political strategies of gente decente reform
  • Masons, magonistas, and maternalists: liberal, anarchist, and maternalist thought within a local/global nexus
  • Crossing borders to rebirth the nation: Leonor Villegas de Magnón and the Mexican Revolution
  • Borderlands Mexican Americans in modern Texas, 1930-1950
  • All for country and home: the transnational lives and work of Romúlo Munguía and Carolina Malpica de Munguía
  • La pasionaria (the passionate one): Emma Tenayuca and the politics of radical reform
  • Struggling against Jaime Crow: LULAC, gente decente heir to a transborder political strategy.