Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American civil rights activist and Texas feminist
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Orozco, Cynthia E.
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 SLO 2020
- Thesaurus
- vredesbeweging, mensenrechten, Mexicaans, Verenigde Staten, Mexico, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- The essayist Adela Sloss-Vento (1901-1998) was a powerhouse of activism in South Texas's Lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. . .This book revives the history of a major female Latina leader. Bringing to light the economic and political transformations that swept through South Texas in the 1920s as ranching declined and agribusiness proliferated, the author situates Sloss-Vento's early years within the context of the Jim Crow/Juan Crow era. . .The author also highlights a partnership with Alonso S. Perales, the principal founder of the League of United Latin American Citizens. It was such a contradiction for her to tolerate LULAC's gender-segregated chapters as Sloss-Vento was an outspoken critic of male privilege in the home and a decidedly progressive wife and mother.