The tejano diaspora : Mexican Americanism and ethnic politics in Texas and Wisconsin / Marc Simon Rodriguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodriguez, Marc S., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexicans--Texas.

Mexicans.

Mexicans--Wisconsin.

Migrant labor--Texas.

Migrant labor.

Migrant labor--Wisconsin.

Citizenship--United States.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill [N.C.] : Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Each spring during the 1960's and 1970's, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they traveled to for work, influencing concepts of Mexican Americanism in Texas, California, Wisconsin, Michigan, and elsewhere. In The Tejano Diaspora, Marc Simon Rodriguez examines how Chicano political and social movements developed at both ends of the migratory labor network that flowed between

Contents:

Post-World War II Mexican Americanism in Crystal City, Texas

Inclusion and Mexican Americanism : high school acculturation and ethnic politics in Crystal City

Activism across the diaspora : the tejano farmworker movement in Wisconsin

Making a migrant village in the city : tejanos and the war on poverty in Milwaukee

Circular activist flows and the rise of La Raza Unida Party in Texas

Conclusion : of diaspora, political economy, and the politics of Mexican America.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908779-7-0

979-88-908779-8-7

1-4696-0325-X

0-8078-7766-2

OCLC:

712044691