The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 92, July 1988 - April, 1989 Page: 568
682 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.View a full description of this periodical.
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WORKING THE WATERFRONT
The Ups and Downs of a Rebel
Longshoreman
By Gilbert Mers
The personal recollections of forty-two years on the Texas water-
front by a retired longshoreman and radical union activist. Mers
proves to be a thoughtful philosopher of democratic ideals and an
eloquent agitator for union reform in this vivid and evocative
account.
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THE SAN ANTONIO MISSIONS
AND THEIR SYSTEM OF LAND
TENURE
By Filix D. Almaraz, Jr.
San Antonio is unique among North American cities in having
five former Spanish missions. This well-researched volume traces
the changes in landownership as the missions passed from sacred
to secular owners in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries.
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Revised edition
FROM PEONES TO POLITICOS
Class and Ethnicity in a South Texas Town,
1900-1987
By Douglas E. Foley with Clarice Mota,
Donald E. Post, and Ignacio Lozano
How does a relatively powerless ethnic group deal with the prob-
lcms of economic inequality, racial discrimination, and lack of
political power? The authors examine these questions in detail,
focusing on the changes in Mexicano-Anglo relations in one small
South Texas community called North Town.
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