Chapultepec Girls: Mexican Americans and Radical Politics in the Great Depression

Chapultepec Girls weaves together threads of cultural, intellectual, and social history to examine how girls articulated a unique and previously unacknowledged vision of Mexican American culture and politics distinct from—and in some cases directly oppositional to—the political cultures of adult male-led Mexican organizations. Through a vivid microhistory of Club Feminino Chapultepec, a Houston-based organization, this book identifies Mexican American girls’ radical politics in manifestos, ...