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Author Gritter, Matthew, 1980-

Title Mexican inclusion : the origins of anti-discrimination policy in Texas and the Southwest / Matthew Gritter
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (160 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Transnational networks and the Fair Employment Practices Committee: Mexican consuls, FEPC officials, and Mexican American civil rights leaders come together -- Identifying and exploring: discovering people of Mexican origin -- State building on the ground: the institutional development of the FEPC and people of Mexican origin -- Good neighbors and good citizens: people of Mexican origin and the FEPC -- Laboratories of democracy?: people of Mexican origin and fair employment in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas -- Conclusion
Summary Immigration across the US-Mexican border may currently be a hot topic, but it is hardly a new one. Labor issues and civil rights have been interwoven with the history of the region since at least the time of the Mexican-American War, and the twentieth century witnessed recurrent political battles surrounding the status and rights of Mexican immigrants. In Mexican Inclusion: The Origins of Anti-Discrimination Policy in Texas and the Southwest, political scientist Matthew Gritter traces the process by which people of Mexican origin were incorporated in the United States' first civil rights agen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice -- History
SUBJECT United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice fast
Subject Mexican Americans -- Employment -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century
Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century
Discrimination in employment -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century
Mexican Americans -- Southwestern States -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century
Social Science / Emigration & Immigration.
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies.
Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations.
Discrimination in employment
Diplomatic relations
Mexican Americans -- Civil rights
Mexican Americans -- Employment
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity
SUBJECT Mexico -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- Mexico
Subject Mexico
United States
United States -- Southwestern States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781603448130
1603448136