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Format: 1 online resource : , illustrations (black and white).

ISBN: 9780300210422 (ebook) :

Series Statement: The Lamar series in Western history

Content: George I. Sánchez is the most important intellectual and one of the most important activists of the 'Mexican American Generation' between the New Deal and the Great Society. From humble New Mexico beginnings, Sánchez used education as a means of advancement first as a teacher, then as an educational bureaucrat, and finally as a professor. Intimately connected to some of the leading national philanthropies with regard to civil rights and with different levels of government in the U.S. and abroad, George Sánchez made bettering humankind his life's work.

Additional Edition: Print version ISBN 9780300190328

Language: English

URL: Yale scholarship online

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Format: 1 online resource : , illustrations (black and white).

ISBN: 0-300-21042-6

Series Statement: The Lamar Series in Western History

Content: George I. Sánchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930-1960). A professor of education at the University of Texas from the beginning of World War II until the early 1970s, Sánchez was an outspoken proponent of integration and assimilation. He spent his life combating racial prejudice while working with such organizations as the ACLU and LULAC in the fight to improve educational and political opportunities for Mexican Americans. Yet his fervor was not always appreciated by those for whom he advocated, and some of his more unpopular stands made him a polarizing figure within the Latino community.Carlos Blanton has published the first biography of this complex man of notable contradictions. The author honors Sánchez's efforts, hitherto mostly unrecognized, in the struggle for equal opportunity, while not shying away from his subject's personal faults and foibles. The result is a long-overdue portrait of a towering figure in mid-twentieth-century America and the all-important cause to which he dedicated his life: Mexican American integration.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , PREFACE -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , INTRODUCTION -- , EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION 1906-1930 -- , NEW MEXICO SCHOOLS AND NEW DEAL POLITICS 1930-1935 -- , EXILE, RECOGNITION, AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT 1935-1940 -- , SÁNCHEZ'S WAR OF IDEAS 1940-1944 -- , SÁNCHEZ'S WAR OF ACTIVISM 1940-1944 -- , SÁNCHEZ'S WAR OF SURVIVAL AND HIS TRANSFORMATIONS 1944-1949 -- , POLITICS AND THE MEXICAN AMERICAN GENERATION -- , MEXICAN AMERICANS AND THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE -- , SEGREGATED SCHOOLS AND PERCEPTIONS OF INEQUALITY -- , MEXICAN AMERICAN RACIAL IDENTITY, WHITENESS, AND CIVIL RIGHTS -- , SÁNCHEZ IN CAMELOT AND THE GREAT SOCIETY 1960-1967 -- , CHICANISMO AND OLD AGE 1967-1972 -- , EPILOGUE -- , NOTES -- , BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , INDEX , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-300-19032-8

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-322-56481-7

Language: English

DOI: 10.12987/9780300210422