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A multi-chapter book, first of its kind, that identifies,
describes, and analyzes FBI documents revealing the hidden history
of surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos in the United States of
America.
No state has a greater density of Chicano community leaders and
politicians than does Texas. This study examines the lives and
politics of a distinguished group of Chicana women who have risen
to positions of power. The authors profile women who serve in
various public capacities federal judges, candidates for Lieutenant
Governor, a statewide chair of a political party, and members of
school boards and city and county governments. The diverse careers
of these women offer rare glimpses of the kinds of struggles they
face, both as women and as members of the Chicano community.
Chicans in Charge will be of great value to those interested in
gender studies, political science, local government, public policy,
oral history, biography, and Chicano studies.
A multi-chapter book that examines the FBI files on two well known
persons of Mexican origin, Luisa Moreno and Ernesto Galarza; four
Chicanos, Ambassador Raymond Telles and his wife Delfina Navarro,
Francisco "Pancho" Medrano, Freddy Fender; two organizations, the
Texas Farm Workers Union and teh American G.I. Forum; and, one
event, the Zoot Suit police riots in Los Angeles, California during
the 1940s.
A multi-chapter book, first of its kind, that identifies,
describes, and analyzes FBI documents revealing the hidden history
of surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos in the United States of
America.
No state has a greater density of Chicano community leaders and
politicians than does Texas. This study examines the lives and
politics of a distinguished group of Chicana women who have risen
to positions of power. The authors profile women who serve in
various public capacities federal judges, candidates for Lieutenant
Governor, a statewide chair of a political party, and members of
school boards and city and county governments. The diverse careers
of these women offer rare glimpses of the kinds of struggles they
face, both as women and as members of the Chicano community.
Chicans in Charge will be of great value to those interested in
gender studies, political science, local government, public policy,
oral history, biography, and Chicano studies.
A multi-chapter book that examines the FBI files on two well known
persons of Mexican origin, Luisa Moreno and Ernesto Galarza; four
Chicanos, Ambassador Raymond Telles and his wife Delfina Navarro,
Francisco "Pancho" Medrano, Freddy Fender; two organizations, the
Texas Farm Workers Union and teh American G.I. Forum; and, one
event, the Zoot Suit police riots in Los Angeles, California during
the 1940s.
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