Bookcover: Warriors for Social Justice: Maria Jiménez of Houston and Mexican American Activists

Warriors for Social Justice: Maria Jiménez of Houston and Mexican American Activists

vol. 12: Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series

Linda J. Quintanilla — author. 

October, 2024

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16 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index.

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About Quintanilla's Warriors for Social Justice

Warriors for Social Justice examines the contributions of Mexican American activists to the nation’s democratic values by concentrating on the activism of Maria Jiménez (1950–2020) in Houston, Texas. Linda J. Quintanilla describes Jiménez’s lifelong battle against injustice, be it racist, sexist, or anti-immigrant animus. The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride in 2003, only one of her many impressive achievements, delighted her the most. The experience introduced its participants, undocumented immigrants, to historic places and African American activists and descendants from the Civil Rights Movement.

“Maria Jiménez is one of the most important Latinas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This is an essential biography of a transnational political activist, organizer, and thinker placed in the context of Houston, a city that witnessed major global changes in the twentieth century.”—Cynthia Orozco, author of No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed.

About the Author

LINDA J. QUINTANILLA taught history at the University of Houston and Houston-area community colleges. She earned an Ed.D. from the University of Houston and is a volunteer archivist at the Austin History Center.

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