Author: Herschel Thurman ManuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Comments on the Education of Children of Spanish-speaking Ancestry in Texas
Author: Herschel Thurman ManuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
The Spanish Speaking in the United States: a Guide to Materials
Author: United States. Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for Spanish-Speaking PeoplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hispanic Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Education of Mexican and Spanish-speaking Children in Texas
Author: Herschel Thurman ManuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Education of Spanish-American and Mexican Children
Author: Lyle SaundersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Labor Rights Are Civil Rights
Author: Zaragosa VargasPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement in twentieth-century America. Absorbing and meticulously researched, Labor Rights Are Civil Rightspaints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930s to the postwar era. Drawing on extensive archival research, Vargas focuses on the large Mexican American communities in Texas, Colorado, and California. As he explains, the Great Depression heightened the struggles of Spanish speaking blue-collar workers, and employers began to define citizenship to exclude Mexicans from political rights and erect barriers to resistance. Mexican Americans faced hostility and repatriation. The mounting strife resulted in strikes by Mexican fruit and vegetable farmers. This collective action, combined with involvement in the Communist party, led Mexican workers to unionize. Vargas carefully illustrates how union mobilization in agriculture, tobacco, garment, and other industries became an important vehicle for achieving Mexican American labor and civil rights. He details how interracial unionism proved successful in cross-border alliances, in fighting discriminatory hiring practices, in building local unions, in mobilizing against fascism and in fighting brutal racism. No longer willing to accept their inferior status, a rising Mexican American grassroots movement would utilize direct action to achieve equality.
Spanish-speaking Americans and Mexican-Americans in the United States
Author: History of the Education of Spanish-speaking Children in Texas
Author: Roberta Muriel JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reports
Author: A Study of the Scholastic Census of the Spanish-speaking Children of Texas
Author: Arnulfo Simeón MartínezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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