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<p>Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they traveled to for work, influencing concepts of Mexican Americanism in Texas, California, Wisconsin, Michigan, and elsewhere. In <i>The Tejano Diaspora</i>, Marc Simon Rodriguez examines how Chicano political and social movements developed at both ends of the migratory labor network that flowed between Crystal City, Texas, and Wisconsin during this period.<br>Rodriguez argues that translocal Mexican American activism gained ground as young people, activists, and politicians united across the migrant stream. Crystal City, well known as a flash point of 1960s-era Mexican Americanism, was a classic migrant sending community, with over 80 percent of the population migrating each year in pursuit of farm work. Wisconsin, which had a long tradition of progressive labor politics, provided a testing ground for activism and ideas for young movement leaders. By providing a view of the Chicano move

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Author

Marc Simon Rodriguez

Publisher

Published in association with The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, by The University of North Carolina Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781469603254

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Social Science

Rating

4.2 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14