Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans

In Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans, Julie Leininger Pycior traces the early origins of organizing in the decades following the US-Mexican War, when Mexicans in the Southwest established mutualista associations for their protection. Further, she traces the ways in which these efforts have been invoked by contemporary Latino civil rights leaders. JULIE LEININGER PYCIOR, Professor of History at Manhattan College, served as a historical adviser to public television and is a contributor to huffingtonpost.com. Her previous book, LBJ and Mexican Americans, won the T. R. Fehrenbach Award from the Texas Historical Commission.