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100 1 $aGarcía, Ignacio M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr90007826
245 10 $aViva Kennedy :$bMexican Americans in search of Camelot /$cIgnacio M. García.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aCollege Station :$bTexas A&M University Press,$c[2000], ©2000.
300 $axi, 227 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aTexas A & M southwestern studies ;$vno. 12
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-217) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Fifties: No Happy Days for Mexicans --$g2.$tOrganizing the Viva Kennedy Clubs --$g3.$tCamelot, Mexican American Style --$g4.$tLa Campana: Electing JFK --$g5.$tElection Results: Appointments and Disappointments --$g6.$tA PASO Forward --$g7.$tDemise of Camelot: The Search Continues.
520 1 $a"In Viva Kennedy, Ignacio M. Garcia surveys the background, development, and evolution of the Viva Kennedy Clubs and their post-election incarnation as PASO, the Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations. He argues that the patriotic fervor of the 1940s and the postwar economic expansion spurred middle-class Mexican Americans to strive for full inclusion in American society.
520 8 $aThey believed that discrimination could be overcome through government actions that recognized their civil rights and their own political participation. Garcia describes the post-election problems of the Viva Kennedy reformers, who first saw the Kennedy administration ignore its campaign promises to them and then faced their own factional squabbles, chronic funding problems, and the growing unease among Anglo Americans wary of Mexican American political power."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMexican Americans$xPolitics and government.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010101622
650 0 $aMexican Americans$xSocieties, etc.
600 10 $aKennedy, John F.$q(John Fitzgerald),$d1917-1963.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055297
650 0 $aMexican Americans.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084498
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xElection$y1960.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106961
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1961-1963.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140469
830 0 $aTexas A & M southwestern studies ;$vno. 12.
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