In defense of my people : Alonso S. Perales and the development of Mexican-American public intellectuals / edited by Michael A. Olivas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olivas, Michael A., author, editor.

Series:

Hispanic civil rights series.

Hispanic civil rights series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perales, Alonso S., 1898-1960.

Perales, Alonso S.

Perales, Alonso S., 1898-1960--Influence.

League of United Latin American Citizens--History.

League of United Latin American Citizens.

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

Mexican Americans.

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

Mexican Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

Mexican Americans--Texas--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the most influential Mexican Americans of his time, Alonso S. Perales (1898-1960) is the subject of this engrossing collection of scholarly essays. A graduate of George Washington University School of Law, he was one of the earliest Mexican-American attorneys to practice law in Texas and was sworn into the bar in 1926. Perales helped found the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), served his country in several diplomatic capacities and was a prolific writer.In Defense of My People sheds light on Perales' activism and the history of Mexican-American and Latino civil rights movements. The essays, written by scholars representing a number of disciplines from the U.S. and Mexico, touch on a variety of topics, including the impact of religion on Latinos, the concept of "race" and individual versus community action to bring about social and political change.Edited and with an introduction and chapter by law scholar Michael A. Olivas, In Defense of My People is the first full-length book available on this trailblazing Mexican-American leader. Scholars were able to take advantage of Perales' never-before-accessible personal archive, which his family donated to the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and is now housed at the University of Houston's Special Collections Department of the M.D. Anderson Library. Originally presented at a conference on Alonso S. Perales at the University of Houston in 2012, this volume is required reading for anyone interested in the history of civil rights organizations, public intellectuals of the early 20th century and Mexican-American political development in Texas.

Contents:

Letter from United States ambassador to Argentina / Vilma S. Martinez

Alonso S. Perales, the rule of law, and the development of Mexican-American public intellectuals / Michael A. Olivas

Alonso S. Perales and his struggle for the civil rights of La Raza through the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) in Texas in the 1930s : incansable soldado del civismo pro-raza / Cynthia E. Orozco

In defense of my people : Alonso Perales and the moral construction of citizenship / Benjamin Marquez

Trials of unity : rethinking the Mexican-American generation in Texas, 1948-1960 / Joseph Orbock Medina

Legally white, socially brown : Alonso S. Perales and his crusade for justice for la raza / Lupe S. Salinas

"Mendigos de nacionalidad" : Mexican-Americanism and ideologies of belonging in a new era of citizenship, Texas 1910-1967 / Aaron Sanchez

Alonso S. Perales and the effort to establish the civil rights of Mexican-Americans as seen through the lens of contemporary critical legal theory : post-racialism, reality construction, interest convergence and other critical themes / George A. Martinez

Alonso S. Perales and the Catholic imaginary : religion and the Mexican-American mind / Mario T. Garcia

Faithful dissident : Alonso Perales, discrimination, and the Catholic Church / Virginia Marie Raymond

Changing voices : approaching modernity from Mexican to Mexican-American to Chicano in the epistolary archives of Alonso S. Perales / Norma Adelfa Mouton

Self-writing and collective representation : the literary enuciation of historical reality and cultural values / Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara

Writing a biography of Alonso Sandoval Perales / F. Arturo Rosales

Connecting causes : Alonso Perales, hemispheric unity, and Mexican rights in the United States / Emilio Zamora

The legal career of Alonso S. Perales / Michael A. Olivas.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611925234

1611925231

OCLC:

922965332