1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIASUN0068298

Autore

Didi-Huberman, Georges

Titolo

L'invenzione dell'isteria : Charcot e l'iconografia fotografia della Salpetrière / Georges Didi-Huberman ; a cura di Riccardo Panattoni e Gianluca Solla ; traduzione di Enrica Manfredotti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Genova ; Milano : Marietti 1820, c2008

ISBN

978-88-211-9426-9

Descrizione fisica

365 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791750403321

Autore

Behnken Brian D

Titolo

Fighting their own battles [[electronic resource] ] : Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas / / Brian D. Behnken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4696-0319-5

0-8078-7787-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Disciplina

305.8009764

Soggetti

Mexican Americans - Civil rights - Texas - History - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - Texas - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - Texas - History - 20th century

School integration - Texas - History - 20th century

African Americans - Relations with Mexican Americans - History - 20th century

Texas Race relations History 20th century

Texas Ethnic relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Advancing the cause of democracy : the origins of protest in the long civil rights movement -- Sleeping on another man's wounds : the battle for integrated schools in the 1950s -- Nothing but victory can stop us : direct action and political action in the early 1960s -- Venceremos : the evolution of civil rights in the mid-1960s -- Am I my brother's keeper? : ecumenical activism in the Lone Star State -- The day of nonviolence is past : the era of Brown power and Black power in Texas -- Pawns, puppets, and ccapegoats : school desegregation in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Sommario/riassunto

Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights struggles as victims of similar forms of racism and discrimination, they were rarely unified. In Fighting Their Own Battles, Brian Behnken explores the cultural dissimilarities, geographical distance, class tensions, and organizational differences that all worked to separate Mexican Americans and blacks. Behnken further demonstrates