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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823912403321

Autore

Orozco Cynthia

Titolo

Agent of change : Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American civil rights activist and Texas feminist / / Cynthia E. Orozco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-4773-1989-1

1-4773-1988-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

323.092

Soggetti

Women political activists - Texas

Mexican American women authors

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

Women civil rights workers - Texas

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Purchased with funds from the Emilia Schunior Ramírez Endowment.

Nota di contenuto

Civil rights leader, public intellectual, and feminist -- The Mexican American Civil Rights movement, 1920- -- The Mexican American Civil Rights movement, 1950- -- The Chicano Movement of 1963-1978 and beyond -- Feminist in the gendered Mexican American Civil Rights movement -- Public Intellectual -- Democrat in the United States and Democrat for Mexico -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"The first comprehensive biography of Sloss-Vento, an essayist and activist in South Texas's Lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the male-dominated Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s"--