League Of United Latin American Citizens Case Study

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The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) was one of the organizations emerged in the late 1920s. Such association looked for improving the position of Mexican Americans in the United Sates. The main goal of this association consisted of fighting against the discrimination of Mexican American citizens and consequently reaching full participation into American culture and society. Nonetheless, LULAC did not favor Mexican American identity as it was expected. Since this organization was made up of mostly Mexican Americans from middle-class, this one was the only class which was represented. This organization was contradictory because it proclaimed itself against Mexicans who immigrated to the United States during the 1920s and 1930s.

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