LEADER 03933nam 2200613 450 001 9910788923503321 005 20230803201605.0 010 $a0-292-75385-3 024 7 $a10.7560/753846 035 $a(CKB)3710000000072328 035 $a(EBL)3443713 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001059584 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11585854 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059584 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11080291 035 $a(PQKB)11130996 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443713 035 $a(OCoLC)867752934 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25088 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443713 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10806729 035 $a(DE-B1597)586627 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292753853 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000072328 100 $a20130911d2014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDemocratizing Texas politics $erace, identity, and Mexican American empowerment, 1945-2002 /$fby Benjamin Ma?rquez 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 1 $aJack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture ;$vv.40 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-75384-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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 Sa?nchez for Governor""; ""7. The Long and Grinding Road""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" 330 $a"In 1940 there were virtually no Mexican American elected officials in Texas at any level of government. By the turn of the century that was no longer true. In fact, Mexican Americans in Texas had effectively reached parity with their white counterparts in elected office. This book tells the story of this dramatic transition in Texas politics and seeks to explain it utilizing original archival research, hours of interviews with leading figures, and the collected letters of some of Texas' most important politicians and activists. The departure from a racially uniform political class in Texas to incorporate Mexican Americans was slow and difficult. Mexican Americans rarely won easy victories and the concessions they received were often yielded with reluctance. Threatened with racial tension, minority status and political exclusion, it is perhaps surprising that Mexican Americans were so successfully incorporated. I argue that their incorporation was the culmination of six interrelated political processes: the long history of political organization among Mexican Americans in Texas that had established an effective corps of leaders, an increasing proportion of the voting-age population, new Democratic Party policies developed to increase the representation of women and minorities, a reinvigorated Republican Party that absorbed conservative voters and weakened resistance to racial reform in the Democratic Party, the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, and finally, an alliance with Anglo liberals that facilitated the transition to a more representative two-party system in Texas"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aJack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture 606 $aMexican Americans$zTexas$xPolitics and government 607 $aTexas$xPolitics and government$y1951- 615 0$aMexican Americans$xPolitics and government. 676 $a976.4/063 686 $aPOL020000$aSOC044000$2bisacsh 700 $aMarquez$b Benjamin$f1953-$01520429 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788923503321 996 $aDemocratizing Texas politics$93804664 997 $aUNINA