Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas
Subtitle: Mexican workers and job politics during World War II
By: Emilio Zamora ; foreword by Juan Gòmez Quiñones.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Rio Grande/Río Bravo -- no. 15
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781603440660; 9781603440974
Subjects: United States. -- Committee on Fair Employment Practice -- History -- 20th century; League of United Latin American Citizens -- History -- 20th century; Alien labor, Mexican -- Texas -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Mexican Americans; Mexican Americans -- Employment -- Texas -- History -- 20th century; Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Discrimination in employment -- Texas -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- Mexico -- 20th century; Mexico -- Foreign relations -- United States -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword, by Juan Gómez Quiñones; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Wartime recovery and denied opportunities; title: Elevating the Mexican cause to a hemispheric level; title: The fight for Mexican rights in Texas; title: The FEPC and Mexican workers in Texas; title: The slippery slope of equal opportunity in the refineries of the upper Texas Gulf Coast; title: Negotiating Mexican workers' rights at Corpus Christi; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix 1. Demographic and social patterns among Mexicans in the United States, 1930-1945; title: Appendix 2. Partial list of Mexican FEPC complainants in Texas, 1943-1945; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.