Agent of change : Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American civil rights activist and Texas feminist /

The first comprehensive biography of Sloss-Vento, an essayist and activist in south Texas's lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the male-dominated Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Orozco, Cynthia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Civil rights leader, public intellectual, and feminist
  • The Mexican American Civil Rights movement, 1920-
  • The Mexican American Civil Rights movement, 1950-
  • The Chicano Movement of 1963-1978 and beyond
  • Feminist in the gendered Mexican American Civil Rights movement
  • Public Intellectual
  • Democrat in the United States and Democrat for Mexico
  • Conclusion.