No Mexicans, women, or dogs allowed : the rise of the Mexican American civil rights movement / Cynthia E. Orozco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orozco, Cynthia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Order of Sons of America.

League of United Latin American Citizens.

Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

Mexican Americans.

League of United Latin American Citizens--History.

Order of Sons of America--History.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Mexican American women.

Social conditions.

History.

Mexican Americans--Civil rights.

United States.

Mexican Americans--Civil rights--Texas--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements--Texas--History--20th century.

Mexican Americans--Texas--Social conditions--20th century.

Mexican American women--Texas--Social conditions--20th century.

Texas.

Physical Description:

xii, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The Mexican colony of South Texas

Ideological origins of the movement

Rise of a movement

Founding fathers

The Harlingen Convention of 1927 : no Mexicans allowed

LULAC's founding

The Mexican American civil rights movement

No women allowed?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780292721098

0292721099

9780292721326

0292721323

OCLC:

318867487