2015 Seventh International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP)

• Record Nr.: UNISA996279955503316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: IEEE
• ISBN: 1-4673-9118-2; 1-4673-9117-4
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823912403321
• Autore: Orozco Cynthia
• 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"--