The borderlands of race : Mexican segregation in a South Texas town / Jennifer R. Nájera.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nájera, Jennifer R., 1975-
Format:	Government Document Book
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Mexican Americans > Segregation > Texas > La Feria > History > 20th century. Mexican Americans > Civil rights > Texas > La Feria > History > 20th century. Mexican Americans > Texas > La Feria > Biography. Race discrimination > Texas > La Feria > History > 20th century. Social movements > Texas > La Feria > History > 20th century. Oral history > Texas > La Feria. La Feria (Tex.) > Race relations > History > 20th century. Texas, South > Race relations > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Mexican inflections of ethnography and history
Part 1. The culture of Mexican segregation
The borderlands of race and rights
Establishing a culture of segregation
Formal and informal Mexican education within the context of segregation
An accommodated form of segregation
Part 2. Processes of racial integration
Troubling the culture of school segregation : Mexican American teachers and the path to desegregation
Surgiendo de la base : community movement and the desegregation of the Catholic Church
Epilogue.

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