The tejano diaspora : Mexican Americanism & ethnic politics in Texas and Wisconsin / Marc Simon Rodriguez
Published
Chapel Hill : Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Post-World War II Mexican Americanism in Crystal City, Texas -- Inclusion and Mexican Americanism : high school acculturation and ethnic politics in Crystal City -- Activism across the diaspora : the tejano farmworker movement in Wisconsin -- Making a migrant village in the city : tejanos and the war on poverty in Milwaukee -- Circular activist flows and the rise of La Raza Unida Party in Texas -- Conclusion : of diaspora, political economy, and the politics of Mexican America
Summary
Rodriguez examines how Chicano political and social movements developed at both ends of the migratory labor network that flowed between Crystal City, Texas, and Wisconsin during the 1960s and 1970s. By providing a view of the Chicano movement beyond the Southwest, Rodriguez reveals an emergent ethnic identity, discovers an overlooked youth movement, and interrogates the meanings of American citizenship
