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Author Blanton, Carlos Kevin, 1970- author.

Title George I. Sánchez : the long fight for Mexican American integration / Carlos Kevin Blanton.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Lamar series in Western history
Lamar series in western history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "George I. Sánchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the 'Mexican American Generation' (1930-1960). A professor of education at the University of Texas from the beginning of World War II until the early 1970s, Sánchez was an outspoken proponent of integration and assimilation. He spent his life combating racial prejudice while working with such organizations as the ACLU and LULAC in the fight to improve educational and political opportunities for Mexican Americans. Yet his fervor was not always appreciated by those for whom he advocated, and some of his more unpopular stands made him a polarizing figure within the Latino community. Carlos Blanton has published the first biography of this complex man of notable contradictions. The author honors Sánchez's efforts, hitherto mostly unrecognized, in the struggle for equal opportunity, while not shying away from his subject's personal faults and foibles. The result is a long-overdue portrait of a towering figure in mid-twentieth-century America and the all-important cause to which he dedicated his life: Mexican American integration"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Part I. 1906-1930s -- Early life and education, 1906-1930 -- New Mexico schools and New Deal politics, 1930-1935 -- Exile, recognition, and underemployment, 1935-1940 -- Part II. 1940s -- Sánchez's war of ideas, 1940-1944 -- Sánchez's war of activism, 1940-1944 -- Sánchez's war of survival and his transformations, 1944-1949 -- Part III. 1950s -- Politics and the Mexican American generation -- Mexican Americans and the immigration issue -- Segregated schools and perceptions of inequality -- Mexican American racial identity, whiteness, and civil rights -- Part IV. 1960s-1972 -- Sánchez in Camelot and the great society, 1960-1967 -- Chicanismo and old age, 1967-1972 -- Epilogue.
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Subject Sánchez, George Isidore, 1906-1972.
Sánchez, George Isidore, 1906-1972.
Mexican Americans -- Biography.
Mexican Americans -- Biography.
Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.
Intellectuals.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Social reformers.
Political activists -- United States -- Biography.
Political activists.
Educators -- Texas -- Biography.
Educators.
Texas.
Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.
Mexican Americans -- Civil rights.
New Southwest.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Mexican Americans -- Segregation -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.
Mexican Americans -- Segregation.
Education, Bilingual -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.
Education, Bilingual.
Southwest, New -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Race relations.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Blanton, Carlos Kevin, 1970- George I. Sánchez 9780300190328 (DLC) 2014018632 (OCoLC)881518367
ISBN 9780300210422 (electronic book)
0300210426 (electronic book)
9780300190328 (print)
0300190328