Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas

Mexican workers and job politics during World War II

1st ed.
Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas
Emilio Zamora, Emilio Zamora
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Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas

Mexican workers and job politics during World War II

1st ed.

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English
Pages
318

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Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas: Mexican workers and job politics during World War II
2009, Texas A&M University Press
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Table of Contents

Foreword, by Juan Gómez Quiñones
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Demographic and social patterns among Mexicans in the United States, 1930-1945
Appendix 2. Partial list of Mexican FEPC complainants in Texas, 1943-1945
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
College Station
Series
Rio Grande/Río Bravo -- no. 15

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
331.6/272076409044
Library of Congress
HD8081.M6 Z36 2009, HD8081.M6Z36 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
318

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16942782M
ISBN 10
1603440666, 1603440976
ISBN 13
9781603440660, 9781603440974
LCCN
2008024039
OCLC/WorldCat
232636427
Library Thing
9826779
Goodreads
6774701

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