Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II

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Contents Foreword, by Juan Gómez-Quiñones ix Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1 Introduction  Chapter 2 Wartime Recovery and Denied Opportunities  Chapter 3 Elevating the Mexican Cause to a Hemispheric Level  Chapter 4 The Fight for Mexican Rights in Texas  Chapter 5 The FEPC and Mexican Workers in Texas  Chapter 6 The Slippery Slope of Equal Opportunity in the Refineries of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast  Chapter 7 Negotiating Mexican Workers’ Rights at Corpus Christi  Chapter 8 Conclusion  Appendix 1 Demographic and Social Patterns among Mexicans in the United States, –  Appendix 2 Partial List of Mexican FEPC Complainants in Texas, –  Notes  Bibliography  Index  ...