03181nam 2200673 a 450 991079175090332120200520144314.0979-88-908779-8-71-4696-0325-X0-8078-7766-2(CKB)2560000000071769(EBL)680724(OCoLC)712044691(SSID)ssj0000473719(PQKBManifestationID)11286595(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000473719(PQKBWorkID)10438679(PQKB)10666818(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245747(MdBmJHUP)muse23499(Au-PeEL)EBL680724(CaPaEBR)ebr10460910(CaONFJC)MIL929556(MiAaPQ)EBC680724(EXLCZ)99256000000007176920101018d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe tejano diaspora[electronic resource] Mexican Americanism and ethnic politics in Texas and Wisconsin /Marc Simon RodriguezChapel Hill [N.C.] Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, by the University of North Carolina Press20111 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-1388-3 0-8078-3464-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 elsewhere. In The Tejano Diaspora, Marc Simon Rodriguez examines how Chicano political and social movements developed at both ends of the migratory labor network that flowed betweenMexicansTexasMexicansWisconsinMigrant laborTexasMigrant laborWisconsinCitizenshipUnited StatesMexicansMexicansMigrant laborMigrant laborCitizenship305.8968/720764Rodriguez Marc S.1968-1485608MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791750903321The tejano diaspora3704814UNINA