UID:
almafu_9959228195302883
Format:
1 online resource (257 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
979-88-908779-8-7
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1-4696-0325-X
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0-8078-7766-2
Content:
Each spring during the 1960's and 1970's, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they traveled to for work, influencing concepts of Mexican Americanism in Texas, California, Wisconsin, Michigan, and elsewhere. In The Tejano Diaspora, Marc Simon Rodriguez examines how Chicano political and social movements developed at both ends of the migratory labor network that flowed between
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Post-World War II Mexican Americanism in Crystal City, Texas -- Inclusion and Mexican Americanism : high school acculturation and ethnic politics in Crystal City -- Activism across the diaspora : the tejano farmworker movement in Wisconsin -- Making a migrant village in the city : tejanos and the war on poverty in Milwaukee -- Circular activist flows and the rise of La Raza Unida Party in Texas -- Conclusion : of diaspora, political economy, and the politics of Mexican America.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4696-1388-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-3464-5
Language:
English
