Mexican inclusion : the origins of anti-discrimination policy in Texas and the Southwest / Matthew Gritter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gritter, Matthew, 1980-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Employment--Southwestern States--History--20th century.

Mexican Americans.

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

Discrimination in employment--Southwestern States--History--20th century.

Discrimination in employment.

Mexican Americans--Southwestern States--Ethnic identity--History--20th century.

Mexico--Foreign relations--United States.

Mexico.

United States--Foreign relations--Mexico.

United States.

United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Immigration across the US-Mexican border may currently be a hot topic, but it is hardly a new one. Labor issues and civil rights have been interwoven with the history of the region since at least the time of the Mexican-American War, and the twentieth century witnessed recurrent political battles surrounding the status and rights of Mexican immigrants. In Mexican Inclusion: The Origins of Anti-Discrimination Policy in Texas and the Southwest, political scientist Matthew Gritter traces the process by which people of Mexican origin were incorporated in the United States' first civ

Contents:

Introduction

Transnational networks and the Fair Employment Practices Committee: Mexican consuls, FEPC officials, and Mexican American civil rights leaders come together

Identifying and exploring: discovering people of Mexican origin

State building on the ground: the institutional development of the FEPC and people of Mexican origin

Good neighbors and good citizens: people of Mexican origin and the FEPC

Laboratories of democracy?: people of Mexican origin and fair employment in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-58435-2

9786613896803

1-60344-813-6

OCLC:

811405335