One of the most influential Mexican Americans of his time, Alonso S. Perales (1898-1960) is the subject of this engrossing collection of scholarly essays. A graduate of George Washington University School of Law, he was one of the earliest Mexican-American attorneys to practice law in Texas and was sworn into the bar in 1926. Perales helped found the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), served his country in several diplomatic capacities and was a prolific writer.
In Defense of My People sheds light on Perales' activism and the history of Mexican-American and Latino civil rights movements. The essays, written by scholars representing a number of disciplines from the U.S. and Mexico, touch on a variety of topics, including the impact of religion on Latinos, the concept of “race” and individual versus community action to bring about social and political change.
- Cover page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Organizing, Creating, LULAC, and Texas Politics
- Alonso S.Perales and his struggle for the Civil Rights of La Raza through the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) in Texas in the 1930s: Incansable Soldado del Civismo Pro-Raza
- In defense of My People: Alonso S. Perales and the moral construction of Citizenschip
- The Mexican-American Generation, Revisited
- The trials of Unity: Rethinking the Mexican-American Generation in Texas, 1948-1960
- Legally White, Socially Brown: Alonso S. Perales and His Crusade for Justice for La raza
- Mendigos de nacionalidad: Mexican-Americanism and ideologies of belonging in a new era of citizenship, Texas 1910-1967
- Alonso S.Perales and the effort to establish the civil rights of mexican americans as seen throught the lens of contemporary critical legal theory: Post-racialism, reality construction, interest convergence, and other critcal themes
- Religion and Race
- Alonso S. Perales and the Catholic Imaginary: Religion and the Mexican-American Mind
- Fiathful dissident: Alonso S. Perales, Discrimination, and the Catholic Church
- Letters, Piety, and Politics
- Changing Voices: Approaching Modernity from mexican to mexican american to Chicano in the Epistolary archives of Alonso S. Perales
- Self-Writing and collective representation: The literary enunciation of historical reality and cultural Values
- Diplomacy, Law, and Biography
- Writing a Biography of Alonso Sandoval Perales
- Connectng causes, Alonso S. Perales, Hemispheric Unity, and Mexican Rights in the United States
- The legal career of Alonso S. Perales
- Contributors
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