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Title Mexican American Civil Rights in Texas edited by Robert Brischetto and J. Richard Avena.

Publication Info. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2021]
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
[2021]

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Description 1 online resource (pages cm.).
Series Latinos in the United States
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Inspired by a 1968 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights six-day hearing in San Antonio that introduced the Mexican American people to the rest of the nation, this book is an examination of the social change of Mexican Americans of Texas over the past half century with recommendations for the future of immigration, voting rights, educational equity, employment and economic security, health and the criminal justice system"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor Foreword, by Rubén Martinez -- Foreword, by David Montejano -- Preface -- Texas Mexicans in the Post-Civil Rights Era, by Robert Brischetto -- The Latino Population of Texas: 1960-2018, by Rogelio Sáenz -- Civil Rights and Immigration: Fifty Years of Failed U.S. Immigration Laws, by Lee J. Terán -- Mexican American Voting Rights in Texas, by José Roberto Juárez, Jr. -- Voter Discrimination in Texas, by Henry Flores -- Barriers to the Ballot Box in Texas, by Kevin Morris and Myrna Pérez
Unmet Promises in Texas Education, by David Hinojosa, María "Cuca" Robledo Montecel, and Aurelio M. Montemayor -- The Farmworkers of Texas, by Rebecca Flores with Juanita Valdez-Cox and James C. Harrington -- Fair Housing in America and Texas: Mexican American Housing Discrimination and Homeownership Trends, by Alejandro Becerra and Henry Cisneros -- Employment and Economic Security Challenges for Mexican Americans in Texas, by Ernest J. Gerlach -- Achieving Economic Security for Texas Mexican Americans, by Marie T. Mora and Alberto Dávila
Chicano Activism: Pathway to Healthy Communities, by Juan H. Flores -- Mexican American Criminal Injustice in Texas, by Lupe S. Salinas -- Contributors
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Social change -- Texas.
Race discrimination -- Texas.
Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Social conditions.
Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- Texas.
Texas -- Race relations.
HISTORY / General
Mexican Americans -- Civil rights
Mexican Americans -- Social conditions
Race discrimination
Race relations
Social change
Texas https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJj8XjVR9hP7dPxwVtRqcP
Added Author Avena, J. Richard, editor.
Brischetto, Robert R., editor.
Project Muse. distributor.
ISBN 9781609176792
1609176790
9781628954463 (electronic bk.)
1628954469 (electronic bk.)
9781611864045
1611864046