Title Redeeming La Raza : transborder modernity, race, respectability, and rights / Gabriela González

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 261 pages) Contents Introduction: redeeming La Raza in the world of two flags entwined -- Modernizing Mexico, 1900-1929 -- Social change, cultural redemption, and social stability: the political strategies of gente decente reform -- Masons, magonistas, and maternalists: liberal, anarchist, and maternal feminist thought within a local/global nexus -- Crossing borders to rebirth the nation: Leonor Villegas de Magnón and the Mexican Revolution -- Borderlands Mexican Americans in modern Texas, 1930-1950 -- "Todo por la patria y el hogar" (All for country and home): the transnational lives and work of Romúlo Munguía and Carolina Malpica de Munguía -- La pasionaria (the passionate one): Emma Tenayuca and the politics of radical reform -- Struggling against Jaime Crow: LULAC, gente decente heir to a transborder political strategy -- Conclusion: "La idea mueve" (the idea moves us): why cultural redemption matters Summary "Redeeming La Raza examines the gendered and class-conscious political activism of Mexican-origin people in Texas from 1900 to 1950. In particular, it questions the inter-generational agency of Mexicans and Mexican Americans who subscribed to particular race-ethnic, class, and gender ideologies as they encountered barriers and obstacles in a society that often treated Mexicans as a nonwhite minority. Middle-class transborder activists sought to redeem the Mexican masses from body politic exclusions in part by encouraging them to become identified with the nation-state. Redeeming La Raza was as much about saving them from traditional modes of thought and practices that were perceived as hindrances to progress as it was about saving them from race and class-based forms of discrimination that were part and parcel of modernity. At the center of this link between modernity and discriminatory practices based on social constructions lay the economic imperative for the abundant and inexpensive labor power that the modernization process required. Labeling groups of people as inferior helped to rationalize their economic exploitation in a developing modern nation-state that also professed to be a democratic society founded upon principles of political egalitarianism. This book presents cases of transborder activism that demonstrate how the politics of respectability and the politics of radicalism operated, often at odds but sometimes in complementary ways."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 13, 2018) Subject Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Politics and government -- 20th century Mexican Americans -- Political activity -- Texas Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Biography Mexicans -- Texas -- History -- 20th century Transnationalism -- Political aspects -- Texas -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. Mexican Americans Mexican Americans -- Political activity Mexican Americans -- Politics and government Mexicans Politics and government SUBJECT Texas, South -- Politics and government -- 20th century Mexican-American Border Region -- Politics and government -- 20th century Subject North America -- Mexican-American Border Region Texas South Texas Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2018017172 ISBN 9780199914159 019991415X 9780199345533 0199345538

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