Vicente Ximenes, LBJ's Great Society, and Mexican American civil rights rhetoric /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kells, Michelle Hall, author.
Imprint:	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2018]
Description:	xix, 322 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Ximenes, Vicente, -- 1919-2014 -- Oratory. Ximenes, Vicente, -- 1919-2014 -- Influence. Mexican Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Chicano movement -- History -- 20th century. Political activists -- United States -- Biography. Mexican Americans -- Biography. Chicano movement. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Mexican Americans. Mexican Americans -- Politics and government. Oratory. Political activists. United States. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11409703

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Other authors / contributors:	Guerra, Juan C., writer of foreword.
ISBN:	9780809336395 0809336391 9780809336401
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Cultural Rhetorical Ecology of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
1. "Chente": Interrogating Histories, Negotiating Rhetorics
2. New Mexico and the Political Imagination of the American GI Forum
3. The Public Rhetoric of Vicente Ximenes: Citizen Scholars and Mexican American Civil Rights Activism
4. Latinidad: The Question of Democracy and the Americas
5. Constructing the "Great Society": The Topoi of the 1967 El Paso Hearings
6. 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
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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