Introduction: the cultural rhetorical ecology of the Mexican American civil rights movement -- "Chente": interrogating histories, negotiating rhetorics -- New Mexico and the political imagination of the American GI Forum -- The public rhetoric of Vicente Ximenes: citizen scholars and Mexican American civil rights activism -- Latinidad: the question of democracy and the Americas -- Constructing the "Great Society": the Topoi of the 1967 El Paso Hearings -- Public memory and the reconstruction of history: the 1972 Civil Rights Symposium -- Conclusion: Vicente Ximenes' engaging public rhetoric, cultural ecologies, and civic literacies in the twenty-first century.
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