Foreword
Juan C. Guerra
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Cultural Rhetorical Ecology of the
Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
1. “Chente”: Interrogating Histories,
Negotiating Rhetorics
2. New Mexico and the Political Imagination
of the American GI Forum
3. The Public Rhetoric of Vicente Ximenes: Citizen Scholars
and Mexican American Civil Rights Activism
4. Latinidad: The Question of Democracy
and the Americas
5. Constructing the “Great Society”: The Topoi
of the 1967 El Paso Hearings
6. Public Memory and the Reconstruction of History:
The 1972 Civil Rights Symposium
Conclusion: Vicente Ximenes—Engaging Public
Rhetoric, Cultural Ecologies, and Civic
Literacies in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index