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Vicente Ximenes, LBJ's Great Society, and Mexican American civil rights rhetoric
Title
Vicente Ximenes, LBJ's Great Society, and Mexican American civil rights rhetoric / Michelle Hall Kells ; foreword by Juan C. Guerra.
ISBN
9780809336395
0809336391
9780809336401
Publication
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2018]
Physical Description
xix, 322 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 10, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: the cultural rhetorical ecology of the Mexican American civil rights movement
"Chente": interrogating histories, negotiating rhetorics
New Mexico and the political imagination of the American GI Forum
The public rhetoric of Vicente Ximenes: citizen scholars and Mexican American civil rights activism
Latinidad: the question of democracy and the Americas
Constructing the "Great Society": the Topoi of the 1967 El Paso Hearings
Public memory and the reconstruction of history: the 1972 Civil Rights Symposium
Conclusion: Vicente Ximenes' engaging public rhetoric, cultural ecologies, and civic literacies in the twenty-first century.
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