03933nam 2200613 450 991078892350332120230803201605.00-292-75385-310.7560/753846(CKB)3710000000072328(EBL)3443713(SSID)ssj0001059584(PQKBManifestationID)11585854(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059584(PQKBWorkID)11080291(PQKB)11130996(MiAaPQ)EBC3443713(OCoLC)867752934(MdBmJHUP)muse25088(Au-PeEL)EBL3443713(CaPaEBR)ebr10806729(DE-B1597)586627(DE-B1597)9780292753853(EXLCZ)99371000000007232820130911d2014 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrDemocratizing Texas politics race, identity, and Mexican American empowerment, 1945-2002 /by Benjamin MárquezFirst edition.Austin :University of Texas Press,2014.1 online resource (257 p.)Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture ;v.40Description based upon print version of record.0-292-75384-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Mexican Americans and Social Change""; ""2. The 1950's-A Decade in Flux""; ""3. The Dilemmas of Ethnic Solidarity""; ""4. The Quiet Revolution""; ""5. A Two-Party State""; ""6. Tony Sánchez for Governor""; ""7. The Long and Grinding Road""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"""In 1940 there were virtually no Mexican American elected officials in Texas at any level of government. By the turn of the century that was no longer true. In fact, Mexican Americans in Texas had effectively reached parity with their white counterparts in elected office. This book tells the story of this dramatic transition in Texas politics and seeks to explain it utilizing original archival research, hours of interviews with leading figures, and the collected letters of some of Texas' most important politicians and activists. The departure from a racially uniform political class in Texas to incorporate Mexican Americans was slow and difficult. Mexican Americans rarely won easy victories and the concessions they received were often yielded with reluctance. Threatened with racial tension, minority status and political exclusion, it is perhaps surprising that Mexican Americans were so successfully incorporated. I argue that their incorporation was the culmination of six interrelated political processes: the long history of political organization among Mexican Americans in Texas that had established an effective corps of leaders, an increasing proportion of the voting-age population, new Democratic Party policies developed to increase the representation of women and minorities, a reinvigorated Republican Party that absorbed conservative voters and weakened resistance to racial reform in the Democratic Party, the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, and finally, an alliance with Anglo liberals that facilitated the transition to a more representative two-party system in Texas"--Provided by publisher.Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and CultureMexican AmericansTexasPolitics and governmentTexasPolitics and government1951-Mexican AmericansPolitics and government.976.4/063POL020000SOC044000bisacshMarquez Benjamin1953-1520429MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788923503321Democratizing Texas politics3804664UNINA