Democratic renewal and the mutual aid legacy of US Mexicans / Julie Leininger Pycior.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pycior, Julie Leininger, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Social networks--Southwest, New--History--20th century.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Southwest, New--Societies, etc--History--20th century.

Fraternal organizations--Southwest, New--History--20th century.

Fraternal organizations.

Mexican Americans--Southwest, New--Social conditions--20th century.

Mexican Americans--Southwest, New--Ethnic identity.

Solidarity.

Mutualism.

Southwest, New--Emigration and immigration.

Southwest, New.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station, [Texas] : Texas A&M University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The legacy of the historic mutual aid organizing by US Mexicans, with its emphasis on self-help and community solidarity, continues to inform Mexican American activism and subtly influence a number of major US social movements. In Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans, Julie Leininger Pycior traces the early origins of organizing in the decades following the US-Mexican War, when Mexicans in the Southwest established mutualista associations for their protection. Further, she traces the ways in which these efforts have been invoked by contemporary Latino

Contents:

Part I. Mutual aid and Mexican immigrant organizing

Part II. Mutualismo and civil rights organizing

Part III. Mutualista-style labor organizing

Part IV. Barrio community organizing

Part V. Big media, big money, and mutualista organizing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62349-165-7

OCLC:

880579869