LULAC, Mexican Americans, and national policy
By: by Craig A. Kaplowitz.
Series: Fronteras series -- no. 4
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: League of United Latin American Citizens -- History; Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; Mexican Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Mexican Americans -- Government policy; United States -- Ethnic relations; United States -- Social policy
Description: "Through the dedicated intervention of LULAC and other Mexican American activist groups, the understanding of civil rights in America was vastly expanded in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mexican Americans gained federal remedies for discrimination based not simply on racial but also on cultural and linguistic disadvantage." "In this book, Craig A. Kaplowitz draws on primary sources, at both national and local levels, to understand the federal policy arena in which the identity issues and power politics of LULAC were played out. At the national level, he focuses on presidential policies and politics, since civil rights has been preeminently a presidential issue."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A league of American citizens; title: Immigrants, citizens, and stakeholders; title: The paradox in domestic policy; title: Stepchildren of the Great Society; title: Between Chicanos and Republicans; title: Policies for the Spanish speaking.