Adela Sloss-Vento

Writer, Political Activist, and Civil Rights Pioneer

Arnoldo Carlos Vento (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2017
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6913-9 (ISBN)

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This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer. It is only through this archive that documentation becomes available of her participation in this unknown and unpublicized civil rights movement. It is a realistic portrayal of an exclusionist semi-colonial society that the reader discovers; a Jim Crow type of political and racial existence against all people of Mexican descent. It represents Sloss-Vento’s lifelong struggle for economic and social equality. Adela Sloss-Vento’s role as a Civil Rights pioneer antedates Dr. Anna Pauline Murray by eight years and Martin Luther King by twenty-eight years. She places her mark in history as a leader, not only for the first seminal Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement of Texas but the first woman and voice in an early, if not the earliest Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

Arnoldo Carlos Vento, PhD, is a bi-lingual, bi-cultural scholar who experienced early the humiliation of segregation. Fortunate to have had the guidance and wisdom of activist Adela Sloss-Vento, he has followed her example to become an international multi-disciplinary scholar and author in multiple areas covering themes and issues relevant to society and its evolution.

Preface: Purpose, Goals, and Family History
Acknowledgments
Adela Sloss-Vento: A Woman Of and Before Her Times, Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodríguez
Part I: The San Juan Phase: Origins and the Formation of a Political Activist
Part II: The Edinburg Phase: Work, Family and Political Activism
Part III: Archival Literature
Selected Essays
Selected Excerpts: Newspaper Articles
Selected Letters: 1941–1992
Appendix I: San Juan, Texas: Socio-Cultural-Political Background
Appendix II: Biographical Addenda
Suggested Readings

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2017
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 240 mm
Gewicht	599 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7618-6913-1 / 0761869131
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-6913-9 / 9780761869139
Zustand	Neuware