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Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas : Mexican workers and job politics during World War II / Emilio Zamora ; foreword by Juan Gómez Quiñones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zamora, Emilio.
- Series:
- Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 15.
- Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice--History--20th century.
- United States.
- League of United Latin American Citizens--History--20th century.
- League of United Latin American Citizens.
- Foreign workers, Mexican--Texas--History--20th century.
- Foreign workers, Mexican.
- World War, 1939-1945--Mexican Americans.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Mexican Americans--Employment--Texas--History--20th century.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexican Americans--Civil rights--Texas--History--20th century.
- Mexican Americans--Texas--Social conditions--20th century.
- Discrimination in employment--Texas--History--20th century.
- Discrimination in employment.
- United States--Foreign relations--Mexico.
- Mexico--Foreign relations--United States.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas, Emilio Zamora traces the experiences of Mexican workers on the American home front during World War II as they moved from rural to urban areas and sought better-paying jobs in rapidly expanding industries. Contending that discrimination undermined job opportunities, Zamora investigates the intervention by Mexico in the treatment of workers, the U.S. State Department's response, and Texas' emergence as a key site for negotiating the application of the Good Neighbor Policy. He examines the role of women workers, the evolving political struggle, the rise of the liberal-urban coalition, and the conservative tradition in Texas. Zamora also looks closely at civil and labor rights-related efforts, implemented by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Fair Employment Practice Committee. EMILIO ZAMORA is an associate professor of history and associate of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Contents:
- Wartime recovery and denied opportunities
- Elevating the Mexican cause to a hemispheric level
- The fight for Mexican rights in Texas
- The FEPC and Mexican workers in Texas
- The slippery slope of equal opportunity in the refineries of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast
- Negotiating Mexican workers' rights at Corpus Christi.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-309) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60344-334-7
- OCLC:
- 715188632
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