Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas [[electronic resource] ] : Mexican workers and job politics during World War II / / Emilio Zamora ; foreword by Juan Gómez Quiñones

• Autore: Zamora Emilio
• Pubblicazione: College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.6/272076409044
• Soggetto topico: Foreign workers, Mexican - Texas - History - 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 - Mexican Americans; Mexican Americans - Employment - Texas - History - 20th century; Mexican Americans - Civil rights - Texas - History - 20th century; Mexican Americans - Texas - Social conditions - 20th century; Discrimination in employment - Texas - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations Mexico; Mexico Foreign relations United States
• Altri autori: Gómez-QuiñonesJuan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-309) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Wartime recovery and denied opportunities -- Elevating the Mexican cause to a hemispheric level -- The fight for Mexican rights in Texas -- The FEPC and Mexican workers in Texas -- The slippery slope of equal opportunity in the refineries of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast -- Negotiating Mexican workers' rights at Corpus Christi.
• Titolo autorizzato: Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas
• ISBN: 1-60344-334-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789850203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; ; no. 15.