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Mexican American Odyssey: Felix Tijerina, Entrepreneur & Civic Leader, 1905-1965 (University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies, 2) by Thomas H. Kreneck is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In Mexican American Odyssey, Thomas H. Kreneck not only traces the influential life of Houston entrepreneur and civic leader Felix Tijerina as an individual but illustrates how Tijerina reflected many trends in Mexican American development during the decades he lived, years that were crucial for the Hispanic community today. Kreneck outlines a pattern of identity and assimilation that has been traced in bold, broader terms by other scholars, who have called Tijerina’s contemporaries the “Mexican American Generation.”Felix Tijerina was born in 1905 in Mexico, although he publicly claimed to have been born in Texas. He worked his way from busboy and waiter to owner of a profitable, well-known chain of Mexican restaurants. The story of his economic success parallels that of other self-made American business leaders. But his contribution did not end there. He was an active leader of local, state, and national Mexican American organizations, and in those groups he worked to advance the Hispanic community and promote social harmony. Moreover, Kreneck demonstrates how Tijerina’s life and efforts symbolized the history of a people who, by the time Tijerina died in the mid-1960s, were no lo
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- Author
- Thomas H. Kreneck
- Publisher
- Texas A & M University Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780890969366
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Biography
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