Shaping Twenty-first-century Civil Rights Advocacy: Latinos in Metro Atlanta

This article chronicles the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund s civil rights history in Atlanta and the Southeast from 2000 to 2009 and beyond. It draws on testimonies of MALDEF officials, as well as pertinent historical, social science, and legal scholarship and media accounts, to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Badillo, David A.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:México
Institución:Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Repositorio:Memoria Institucional CISAN, Repositorio Institucional, UNAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ru.micisan.unam.mx:123456789/19801
Acceso en línea:https://ru.micisan.unam.mx/handle/123456789/19801
http://dx.doi.org/10.20999/nam.2013.c0005
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:CIENCIAS SOCIALES
North America
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Mexican-American civil rights
latino legal advocacy
latinos in the Southeast
derechos civiles mexico-americanos
promoción de los servicios legales latinos
defensa de los servicios legales latinos
latinos y el sureste
América del Norte
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Sumario:This article chronicles the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund s civil rights history in Atlanta and the Southeast from 2000 to 2009 and beyond. It draws on testimonies of MALDEF officials, as well as pertinent historical, social science, and legal scholarship and media accounts, to reveal changing regional Latino migration and settlement patterns and emerging twenty-first-century legal advocacy strategies. Also covered are organized responses to state and local anti-immigrant ordinances passed after September 11 2001 resistance to residential and workplace discrimination faced by suburban undocumented immigrants and the fragile nature of coalitions in the contemporary Latino civil rights movement.