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In defense of my people : Alonso S. Perales and the development of Mexican-American public intellectuals / edited by Michael A. Olivas.

Other author/creatorOlivas, Michael A.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoHouston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2012]
Descriptionxxxvii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Hispanic civil rights series
Contents Letter from United States ambassador to Argentina / Vilma S. Martinez -- Alonso S. Perales, the rule of law, and the development of Mexican-American public intellectuals / Michael A. Olivas -- 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 -- In defense of my people : Alonso Perales and the moral construction of citizenship / Benjamin Marquez -- Trials of unity : rethinking the Mexican-American generation in Texas, 1948-1960 / Joseph Orbock Medina -- Legally white, socially brown : Alonso S. Perales and his crusade for justice for la raza / Lupe S. Salinas -- "Mendigos de nacionalidad" : Mexican-Americanism and ideologies of belonging in a new era of citizenship, Texas 1910-1967 / Aaron Sanchez -- 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 -- Alonso S. Perales and the Catholic imaginary : religion and the Mexican-American mind / Mario T. Garcia -- Faithful dissident : Alonso Perales, discrimination, and the Catholic Church / Virginia Marie Raymond -- Changing voices : approaching modernity from Mexican to Mexican-American to Chicano in the epistolary archives of Alonso S. Perales / Norma Adelfa Mouton -- Self-writing and collective representation : the literary enuciation of historical reality and cultural values / Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara -- Writing a biography of Alonso Sandoval Perales / F. Arturo Rosales -- Connecting causes : Alonso Perales, hemispheric unity, and Mexican rights in the United States / Emilio Zamora -- The legal career of Alonso S. Perales / Michael A. Olivas.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012046350
ISBN9781558857605 (alk. paper)

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