Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Mexican Americans --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Texas --- Social conditions --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Social conditions.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

American literature --- Mexican Americans --- Littérature américaine --- Mexican American authors --- Literary collections --- Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement in twentieth-century America. Absorbing and meticulously researched, Labor Rights Are Civil Rights paints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930's to the postwar era. Drawing on extensive archival research, Vargas focuses on the large Mexican American communities in Texas, Colorado, and California. As he explains, the Great Depression heightened the struggles of Spanish speaking blue-collar workers, and employers began to define citizenship to exclude Mexicans from political rights and erect barriers to resistance. Mexican Americans faced hostility and repatriation. The mounting strife resulted in strikes by Mexican fruit and vegetable farmers. This collective action, combined with involvement in the Communist party, led Mexican workers to unionize. Vargas carefully illustrates how union mobilization in agriculture, tobacco, garment, and other industries became an important vehicle for achieving Mexican American labor and civil rights. He details how interracial unionism proved successful in cross-border alliances, in fighting discriminatory hiring practices, in building local unions, in mobilizing against fascism and in fighting brutal racism. No longer willing to accept their inferior status, a rising Mexican American grassroots movement would utilize direct action to achieve equality.

Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Mexican Americans --- Labor movement --- Ethnology --- Civil rights --- History --- Employment --- Mouvement ouvrier --- Travail --- Histoire --- Droits

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Mexican Americans in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Film criticism. --- Américains d'origine mexicaine au cinéma --- Cinéma --- Critique cinématographique

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Children of foreign workers --- Mexican American children --- Mexican Americans --- Turks --- Enfants de travailleurs étrangers --- Enfants américains d'origine mexicaine --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Turcs --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Germany --- United States --- Allemagne --- Etats-Unis --- Ethnic relations --- Relations interethniques