Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico’s Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States

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By Ruben Flores ’94

Published Jan. 21, 2016

In Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico’s Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States, Ruben Flores ’94 highlights how efforts to build a multi-ethnic Mexican nation in the early 1900’s affected the American struggle against Jim Crow. Flores is a professor of American studies at the University of Kansas.

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