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03544aam a2200445 i 4500 001 80B167B86B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 130911s2014 txua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2013019910 020 $a 0292753845 (hbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780292753846 (hbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)832287128 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IG# $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d IKM $d SILO 043 $a n-us-tx $a n-us-tx 050 00 $a F395.M5 M367 2014 082 00 $a 976.4/063 $2 23 084 $a SOC044000 $a SOC044000 $2 bisacsh 086 $a Z UA380.8 M348de $2 txdocs 100 1 $a Marquez, Benjamin, $d 1953- 245 10 $a Democratizing Texas politics : $b race, identity, and Mexican American empowerment, 1945-2002 / $c by Benjamin M婁rquez. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Austin : $b University of Texas Press, $c 2014. 300 $a x, 245 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; $v number 40 520 $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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-241) and index. 650 0 $a Mexican Americans $z Texas $x Politics and government. 651 0 $a Texas $x Politics and government $y 1951- 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / State & Provincial. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Mexican Americans $x Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01019137 650 7 $a Political science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069781 651 7 $a Texas. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210336 648 7 $a Since 1951 $2 fast 830 0 $a Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; $v no. 40. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826091930.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=80B167B86B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search