000714306 000__ 03289cam\a2200385\i\4500 000714306 001__ 714306 000714306 005__ 20210515101716.0 000714306 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000714306 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000714306 008__ 130911s2014\\\\txua\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000714306 020__ $$z9780292753846$$qhardcover 000714306 020__ $$a9780292753853$$qelectronic book 000714306 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10806729 000714306 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cCaPaEBR 000714306 043__ $$an-us-tx 000714306 05014 $$aF395.M5$$bM367 2014eb 000714306 08204 $$a976.4/063$$223 000714306 1001_ $$aMarquez, Benjamin,$$d1953- 000714306 24510 $$aDemocratizing Texas politics$$h[electronic resource] :$$brace, identity, and Mexican American empowerment, 1945-2002 /$$cby Benjamin Márquez. 000714306 250__ $$aFirst edition. 000714306 264_1 $$aAustin :$$bUniversity of Texas Press,$$c2014. 000714306 300__ $$a1 online resource (256 pages) :$$billustrations 000714306 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000714306 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000714306 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000714306 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000714306 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000714306 520__ $$a"In 1940 there were virtually no Mexican American elected officials in Texas at any level of government. By the turn of the century that was no longer true. In fact, Mexican Americans in Texas had effectively reached parity with their white counterparts in elected office. This book tells the story of this dramatic transition in Texas politics and seeks to explain it utilizing original archival research, hours of interviews with leading figures, and the collected letters of some of Texas' most important politicians and activists. The departure from a racially uniform political class in Texas to incorporate Mexican Americans was slow and difficult. Mexican Americans rarely won easy victories and the concessions they received were often yielded with reluctance. Threatened with racial tension, minority status and political exclusion, it is perhaps surprising that Mexican Americans were so successfully incorporated. I argue that their incorporation was the culmination of six interrelated political processes: the long history of political organization among Mexican Americans in Texas that had established an effective corps of leaders, an increasing proportion of the voting-age population, new Democratic Party policies developed to increase the representation of women and minorities, a reinvigorated Republican Party that absorbed conservative voters and weakened resistance to racial reform in the Democratic Party, the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, and finally, an alliance with Anglo liberals that facilitated the transition to a more representative two-party system in Texas"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000714306 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000714306 650_0 $$aMexican Americans$$zTexas$$xPolitics and government. 000714306 651_0 $$aTexas$$xPolitics and government$$y1951- 000714306 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMárquez, Benjamin.$$tDemocratizing Texas politics : race, identity, and Mexican American empowerment, 1945-2002.$$dAustin : University of Texas Press, 2014$$z9780292753846$$w(DLC) 2013019910 000714306 852__ $$bebk 000714306 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/usiricelib/Doc?id=10806729$$zOnline Access 000714306 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:714306$$pGLOBAL_SET 000714306 980__ $$aEBOOK 000714306 980__ $$aBIB 000714306 982__ $$aEbook 000714306 983__ $$aOnline