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Author Zamora, Emilio.

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

Imprint College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvi, 318 p. : ill.
Series Rio Grande/Rio Bravo ; no. 15
Rio Grande/Rio Bravo ; no. 15.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-309) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice -- History -- 20th century.
League of United Latin American Citizens -- History -- 20th century.
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.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Mexico.
Mexico -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Gomez-Quinones, Juan.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781603440660 (cloth : alk. paper)
1603440666 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781603440974 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1603440976 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781603443340 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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