The Tejano Diaspora: Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin

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Each and every spring All the way through the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to commute around the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest The united states’s agricultural products. All the way through this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all of the places they traveled to for work, influencing concepts of Mexican Americanism in Texas, California, Wisconsin, Michigan, and in different places. In The Tejano Diaspora, Marc Simon 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 All the way through this period.

Rodriguez argues that translocal Mexican American activism gained ground as young people, activists, and politicians united around the migrant stream. Crystal City, well referred to as a flash point of 1960s-era Mexican Americanism, used to be a classic migrant sending community, with over 80 percent of the population migrating Each and every year in pursuit of farm work. Wisconsin, which had a long tradition of progressive labor politics, provided a testing ground for activism and ideas for young movement leaders. By providing a view of the Chicano movement beyond the Southwest, Rodriguez reveals an emergent ethnic identity, discovers an overpassed youth movement, and interrogates the meanings of American citizenship.

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