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UNINA9910790908003321 |
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Autore |
Pycior Julie Leininger |
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Titolo |
Democratic renewal and the mutual aid legacy of US Mexicans / / Julie Leininger Pycior |
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College Station, [Texas] : , : Texas A&M University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mexican Americans - Social networks - Southwest, New - History - 20th century |
Mexican Americans - Southwest, New - Societies, etc - History - 20th century |
Fraternal organizations - Southwest, New - History - 20th century |
Mexican Americans - Southwest, New - Social conditions - 20th century |
Mexican Americans - Southwest, New - Ethnic identity |
Solidarity |
Mutualism |
Southwest, New Emigration and immigration |
Mexico Emigration and immigration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Part I. Mutual aid and Mexican immigrant organizing -- Part II. Mutualismo and civil rights organizing -- Part III. Mutualista-style labor organizing -- Part IV. Barrio community organizing -- Part V. Big media, big money, and mutualista organizing. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The legacy of the historic mutual aid organizing by US Mexicans, with its emphasis on self-help and community solidarity, continues to inform Mexican American activism and subtly influence a number of major US social movements. In Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans, Julie Leininger Pycior traces the early origins of organizing in the decades following the US-Mexican War, when Mexicans in the Southwest established mutualista associations for their |
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protection. Further, she traces the ways in which these efforts have been invoked by contemporary Latino |
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