Agent of change : Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American civil rights activist and Texas feminist / Cynthia E. Orozco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orozco, Cynthia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sloss-Vento, Adela.

Women political activists--Texas--Biography.

Women political activists.

Mexican American women authors--Biography.

Mexican American women authors.

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

Mexican Americans.

Women civil rights workers--Texas--Biography.

Women civil rights workers.

Mexican Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Texas.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020.

Summary:

"The first comprehensive biography of Sloss-Vento, an essayist and activist in South Texas's Lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the male-dominated Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Civil rights leader, public intellectual, and feminist

The Mexican American Civil Rights movement, 1920-

The Mexican American Civil Rights movement, 1950-

The Chicano Movement of 1963-1978 and beyond

Feminist in the gendered Mexican American Civil Rights movement

Public Intellectual

Democrat in the United States and Democrat for Mexico

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781477319864

1477319867

OCLC:

1096467353