In defense of my people
Subtitle: Alonso S. Perales and the development of Mexican-American public intellectuals
By: edited by Michael A. Olivas
Series: Hispanic civil rights series
Publisher: Arte Público Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houston, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781558857605
Subjects: League of United Latin American Citizens; Mexican Americans; Intellectual life; Civil rights; Influence; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Letter from United States ambassador to Argentina / Vilma S. Martinez; title: Alonso S. Perales, the rule of law, and the development of Mexican-American public intellectuals / Michael A. Olivas; title: Alonso S. Perales and his struggle for the civil rights of La Raza through the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) in Texas in the 1930s : incansable soldado del civismo pro-raza / Cynthia E. Orozco; title: In defense of my people : Alonso Perales and the moral construction of citizenship / Benjamin Marquez; title: Trials of unity : rethinking the Mexican-American generation in Texas, 1948-1960 / Joseph Orbock Medina; title: Legally white, socially brown : Alonso S. Perales and his crusade for justice for la raza / Lupe S. Salinas; title: "Mendigos de nacionalidad" : Mexican-Americanism and ideologies of belonging in a new era of citizenship, Texas 1910-1967 / Aaron Sanchez; title: Alonso S. Perales and the effort to establish the civil rights of Mexican-Americans as seen through the lens of contemporary critical legal theory : post-racialism, reality construction, interest convergence and other critical themes / George A. Martinez; title: Alonso S. Perales and the Catholic imaginary : religion and the Mexican-American mind / Mario T. Garcia; title: Faithful dissident : Alonso Perales, discrimination, and the Catholic Church / Virginia Marie Raymond; title: Changing voices : approaching modernity from Mexican to Mexican-American to Chicano in the epistolary archives of Alonso S. Perales / Norma Adelfa Mouton; title: Self-writing and collective representation : the literary enuciation of historical reality and cultural values / Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara; title: Writing a biography of Alonso Sandoval Perales / F. Arturo Rosales; title: Connecting causes : Alonso Perales, hemispheric unity, and Mexican rights in the United States / Emilio Zamora; title: The legal career of Alonso S. Perales / Michael A. Olivas.