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Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas : Mexican workers and job politics during World War II
- Title
- Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas : Mexican workers and job politics during World War II / Emilio Zamora ; foreword by Juan Gòmez Quiñones.
- Author
- Zamora, Emilio.
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 318 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 15
- Uniform Title
- Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 15.
- Subjects
- League of United Latin American Citizens History > 20th century
- Mexico > Foreign relations > United States
- World War, 1939-1945 > Mexican Americans
- Foreign workers, Mexican > Texas > History > 20th century
- Discrimination in employment > Texas > History > 20th century
- Mexican Americans > Texas > Civil rights > History > 20th century
- Mexican Americans > Employment > Texas > History > 20th century
- United States > Committee on Fair Employment Practice > History > 20th century
- United States > Foreign relations > Mexico
- Mexican Americans > Texas > Social conditions > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-309) and index.
- Contents
- Wartime recovery and denied opportunities -- Elevating the Mexican cause to a hemispheric level -- The fight for Mexican rights in Texas -- The FEPC and Mexican workers in Texas -- The slippery slope of equal opportunity in the refineries of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast -- Negotiating Mexican workers' rights at Corpus Christi.
- Call Number
- IEE (Mexicans) 10-633
- ISBN
- 9781603440660 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1603440666 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781603440974 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1603440976 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008024039
- OCLC
- 232636427
- Author
- Zamora, Emilio.
- Title
- Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas : Mexican workers and job politics during World War II / Emilio Zamora ; foreword by Juan Gòmez Quiñones.
- Imprint
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 15Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 15.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-309) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- IEE (Mexicans) 10-633