Fighting for Caucasian Rights: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and the Transnational Struggle for Civil Rights in World War II Texas

Since the state of Texas had officially accepted people of Latin American descent as Caucasian, the wartime Texas resolution guaranteeing "Caucasians" equal access to public accommodations was aimed at them. Guglielmo shows that the 1943 resolution and similar bills that failed to pass the legislature throughout the 1940s were important parts of a transnational civil rights struggle that included activists, organizations and governments on both sides of the US-Mexico border.