"The first comprehensive biography of Sloss-Vento, an essayist and activist in South Texas\'s Lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the male-dominated Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s"--. "The first comprehensive biography of Sloss-Vento, an essayist and activist in South Texas\'s Lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the male-dominated Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s"--