Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans

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Notes Acknowledgements 1. Bill Moyers, Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times, ed. Julie Leininger Pycior (New York: The New Press, 2004). Introduction 1. Jonathan Fox, “Reframing Mexican Migration as a Multi-ethnic Process,” Latino Studies 4, no. 1–2 (2006), 39–61. 2. Juan Carlos Romero Hicks, “Comisión Estatal de Apoyo Integral a Los Migrantes y Sus Familias,” http://www.guanajuato.gob.mx/gestiones/romerohicks/cuarto/social/sdsh2.pdf, 23– 26; Tereso Ortiz Alvarado, “Historia,” http://www.redesmexico.mx/index.php?option=com_con tent&view=article&id=991:Dallas%20/%20Dallas%20-%20M%C3%A9xico%20Casa%20Guanajuato .%20&catid=97:estados-unidos&Itemid=125 (accessed 8/19/13); Gustavo Cano and Alexandra Délano, “The Institute of Mexicans Abroad: The Day After . . . After 156 Years,” American Political Science Association, September 2–5, 2004, 31; “Mexico: Migrants, Remittances, 3x1,” Migration News, October 2009, http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=3548_0_2_0; Geo-Mexico, “Mexican Home Town Associations (HTAs) and Their Considerable Effectiveness,” http://geo-mexico.com/?p=5589 (accessed 1/7/13); Federación Jaliscence, “Patrocinador,” http:// fedjalisco.org/category/patrocinadores/ (accessed 8/19/13); Jonathan Fox and Xóchitl Bada, “Migrant Civic Engagement”; Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , “2006 Presidential Election Votes by State and Party,” http://www.wilsoncenter.org/news/ docs/MexicoGovernmentStats1.pdf; Kay Briegal, “Alianza Hispano-Americana,” PhD diss., University of Southern California, 1974, 94–99; Alianza, October 1932, 20. 3. The uneven pattern of this segregation serves as a reminder that the practice was not ubiquitous throughout the entire Southwest, in contrast to the situation for African Americans in the Deep South. Thus, David Montejano found that Mexicans in Texas counties with cash-crop economies experienced wholesale segregation, while those in ranching counties largely did not. David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987); Briegal, “Alianza Hispano Americana,” chapter 1; Julie Leininger Pycior, “Sociedades Mutualistas,” Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/ online/articles/ves01 (accessed 2/18/2013). 4. Raúl Yzaguirre,“Comments of Raúl Yzaguirre,” EEOC History: 35th Anniversary, http:// www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/voices/yzaguirre-text.html (accessed 1/25/11). 5. For an eloquent immigrant rights statement given to an AFL-CIO convention, see FLOC President Baldemar Velásquez at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_IbmChlmdw (accessed 2/24/13). Steven Greenhouse, “North Carolina Growers’ Group Signs Union Contract for Mexican Workers,” The New York Times, September 17, 2004; Baldemar Velásquez, speech to Labor Notes conference, August 15, 2008; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRm1HFPgBto&feature =related (accessed 2/21/11); Farm Labor Organizing Committee, “Justice for Santiago Rafael Cruz,” http://www.aflcio.org/content/download/6872/74284/file/2009res_64.pdf (accessed 8/24/13); Pycior, “Sociedades Mutualistas.” 6. Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel, Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity (New York: The New Press, 2011), 84. 172 notes to pages xiii–xv 7. Author interview with Soledad “Chole” Alatorre, May 3, 2010, Pacoima, CA; Soledad Alatorre to author, telephone conversation, May 1, 2010; Industrial Areas Foundation, “Locate IAF Facilities,” http://www.industrialareasfoundation.org/affiliate-members (accessed 8/24/13); author notes on Worker Mass and May Day commemoration, May 1, 2010, Pacoima, CA; author interview with Ernesto Cortés Jr., May 19, 2010, New York City; Harry C. Boyte, “Seeds of a Different Politics,” The Good Society 19, no. 1 (2010), 70–73; Hezekiah Walker, “I Need You to Survive,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUUHPDUsLJ0 (accessed 3/2/11); OneLA-IAF, “Agenda: OneLA Assembly” and “OneLA-IAF Foreclosure Prevention Plan,” n.d., Los Angeles; author audio recording, OneLA-IAF assembly, May 2, 2010, Los Angeles. 8. “NCLR President and CEO,” http://www.nclr.org/index.php/about_us/leadership/ (accessed 2/24/13). 9. The classic account of the GI generation of Mexican Americans is Mario García, Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930–1960 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989). Yzaguirre interview. 10. María Varela received the MacArthur “genius” award and was one of one thousand women collectively nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She also is a veteran of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizing in Mississippi, and before that, she was a national leader of the Catholic social justice group Young Christian Students and a founder, in 1962, of Students for a Democratic Society. Alatorre interview; García, Mexican Americans, Part Two, “Labor and the Left”; María Varela, interview with author, April 22, 2010...