No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

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Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has on a regular basis been judged in line with Chicano nationalist standards of the past due 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on extensive archival research, including the private papers of Alonso S. Perales and Adela Sloss-Vento, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed presents the history of LULAC in a brand new light, restoring its early twentieth-century context.

Cynthia Orozco also provides evidence that perceptions of LULAC as a petite bourgeoisie, assimilationist, conservative, anti-Mexican, anti-working class organization belie the realities of the gang’s early activism. Supplemented by oral history, this sweeping look at probes LULAC’s predecessors, such because the Order Sons of The usa, blending historiography and cultural studies. Against a backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, World War I, gender discrimination, and racial segregation, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed recasts LULAC at the leading edge of civil rights movements in The usa.

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