The "Box Bill": Public Policy, Ethnicity, and Economic Exploitation in Texas

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dc.contributor.advisorHart, Paul
dc.contributor.authorRoderick, Marshall
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHelgeson, Jeffrey
dc.contributor.committeeMemberWatson, Dwight
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-09T17:51:56Z
dc.date.available2011-12-09T17:51:56Z
dc.date.issued2011-12
dc.description.abstractThe first steps of the civil rights movement that produced LULAC began in the 1920s when competing civil rights groups began to form strategic alliances in response to racist, eugenics-based attacks. Mexican-American spokesmen defended themselves, and Mexicans in general, against prejudice constructed primarily out of false but convenient cultural tropes depicting Mexicans as indolent, unhygienic, and criminal. Meanwhile, unskilled Mexican immigrant labor was quietly contributing to local Texas communities in the Rio Grande Valley through consumer spending.
dc.description.departmentHistory
dc.formatText
dc.format.extent131 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationRoderick, M. (2011). The "Box Bill": Public policy, ethnicity, and economic exploitation in Texas (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/2416
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectImmigration
dc.subject1920s
dc.subjectBox bill
dc.subjectLulac
dc.subjectRio Grande Valley
dc.subject.lcshImmigrants--Texas--Historyen_US
dc.subject.lcshMexican Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--Texas--Historyen_US
dc.subject.lcshMexican Americans--Government policy--Texas--Historyen_US
dc.subject.lcshTexas--Ethnic relationsen_US
dc.subject.lcshCitizenship--Texas--Historyen_US
dc.titleThe "Box Bill": Public Policy, Ethnicity, and Economic Exploitation in Texas
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.departmentHistory
thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorTexas State University-San Marcos
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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