Anthony Quiroz
Claiming Citizenship
Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas
(Texas A&M University Press, 2005)

Publisher Comments:
Claiming Citizenship spotlights a community where Mexican Americans, regardless of social class, embraced a common ideology and worked for access to the full rights of citizenship without confrontation or radicalization. Focusing on grassroots, author Anthony Quiroz shows how the experience of the Mexican American citizens of Victoria, Texas who worked within the system, challenges common assumptions about the power of class to inform ideology and demonstrates that embracing ethnic identity does not always mean rejecting Americanism. Quiroz's study makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Mexican American experience by focusing on groups who chose the more subtle, less controntational path toward equality.

Dr. Quiroz is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

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