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Autore |
Rodriguez Marc S. <1968-> |
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Titolo |
The tejano diaspora : Mexican Americanism and ethnic politics in Texas and Wisconsin / / Marc Simon Rodriguez |
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Chapel Hill [N.C.], : Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908779-8-7 |
1-4696-0325-X |
0-8078-7766-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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305.8968/720764 |
305.8968720764 |
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Soggetti |
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Mexicans - Texas |
Mexicans - Wisconsin |
Migrant labor - Texas |
Migrant labor - Wisconsin |
Citizenship - United States |
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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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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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