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1.

Foreigners in Their Native Land: Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans » Read Now
by David J. Weber. 288 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans edited by David J. Weber...them. Yet the six million Mexican Americans comprise the second largest...numbers. A young generation...
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Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement » Read Now
by F. Arturo Rosales. 271 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...1-55885-201-8 alk. paper 1. Mexican Americans Civil rights History. 2. Civil...to extend their anxiety to Mexican Americans doing the same. In fact, a...Today many of my...
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Chicano Ethnicity » Read Now
by Susan E. Keefe, Amado M. Padilla. 238 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Roots of Chicano Politics, 1600-1940 » Read Now
by Juan Gomez-Quinones. 546 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This sweeping and original synthesis reinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective. The region included today in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas formed the far northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After 1821 it became a...
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This sweeping and original synthesis reinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective. The region included today in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas formed the far northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After 1821 it became a part of the newly independent Mexico, which soon lost the land north of the Río Bravo (or the Rio Grande) to the expanding United States. Explored here are the varying experiences over nearly 350 years of Mexicans living in lands north of the Río Bravo. Professor Gómez-Quiñones examines Mexicans' interactions first with Indians and then Anglos and delineates what changes occurred in Mexican and Mexican-American identity and political consciousness. This new interpretation of Mexicans in borderlands history emerges from a wide-ranging analysis including politics and governance, repression and violence, gender and ethnicity, hegemony and ideology, and cultural and social change.
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From out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America » Read Now
by Vicki L. Ruiz. 240 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative forces shaping the cultural and economic development of what is now the American Southwest. Whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, or an urban barrio, Mexican women nurtured families, worked for wages, built extended...
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For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative forces shaping the cultural and economic development of what is now the American Southwest. Whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, or an urban barrio, Mexican women nurtured families, worked for wages, built extended networks, and participated in community associations--efforts that solidified the community and helped Mexican Americans find their own place in America. Now, in From Out of the Shadows, historian Vicki L. Ruiz provides the first full study of Mexican-American women in the 20th century, in a narrative enhanced by interviews and personal stories that capture a vivid sense of the Mexicana experience in the United States. Beginning with the first wave of women crossing the border early this century, Ruiz reveals the struggles they have faced, the communities they have built, and also highlights the various forms of political protest they have initiated. What emerges from the book is a portrait of a distinctive culture in America that has slowly gathered strength in the last 95 years. From Out of the Shadows is an important addition to the largely undocumented history of Mexican-American women in our century.
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Electoral Structure and Urban Policy: The Impact on Mexican American Communities » Read Now
by J. L. Polinard, Robert D. Wrinkle, Tomas Longoria, Norman E. Binder. 200 pgs.

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...government and representation--Texas. 4. Mexican Americans--Texas--Politics and government. I...Employment 129 6.6 Pay Equity: Mexican Americans as a Percentage of All...
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Mexican Americans and the Catholic Church, 1900-1965 » Read Now
by Jay P. Dolan, Gilberto M. Hinojosa. 384 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...MEXICAN AMERICANS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1900-1965 Mexican Americans and the Catholic Church, 1900-1965...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mexican Americans and the...
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American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture » Read Now
by Jose E. Limon. 251 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Award-winning anthropologist Jose Limon looks into history, politics, literature, folklore, ethnography, biography, film, song, & dance to prone the deeply entwined & ambivalent relationship between both sides of the border over the last 150 years. The idea of crossing the Rio Grande between the...
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Award-winning anthropologist Jose Limon looks into history, politics, literature, folklore, ethnography, biography, film, song, & dance to prone the deeply entwined & ambivalent relationship between both sides of the border over the last 150 years. The idea of crossing the Rio Grande between the U.S. & Mexico has always conjured images of racial hostility & exclusion. And today these images include stories of immigrant drownings, drug killings, & toxic waste. Limon's analysis engages us in the political, popular, & cultural dimension of the border & offers hope for the future.
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The Lost Land: The Chicano Image of the Southwest » Read Now
by John R. Chavez. 207 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Bibliography: p.Includes index. 1. Mexican Americans--Southwest, New--Attitudes. 2. 2. Mexican Americans--Southwest, New--History. 3. Mexican Americans--Southwest...
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Speaking for Themselves: Neomexicano Cultural Identity and the Spanish-Language Press, 1880-1920 » Read Now
by Doris Meyer. 282 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Spanish -- New Mexico--History and criticism. 2. Mexican American newspapers-- New Mexico--History--19th century. 3. Mexican Americans-- New Mexico--Ethnic identity. I...
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The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican-American Barrio » Read Now
by Daniel Dohan. 295 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

"Masterful scholarship--detailed, insightful, and original. Dohan investigates the role that immigration plays in understanding Latino poverty in the United States. He also provides a nuanced and detailed analysis of neighborhood factors that help us better understand Latino poverty and how Latino...
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"Masterful scholarship--detailed, insightful, and original. Dohan investigates the role that immigration plays in understanding Latino poverty in the United States. He also provides a nuanced and detailed analysis of neighborhood factors that help us better understand Latino poverty and how Latino residents navigate the world of low-skill work, resources, and life in the barrio."--Abel Valenzuela Jr., co-editor of "Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles
"A very timely study. At a time when the Latino population is rapidly growing in the U.S., Dohan provides us with one of the best and most poignant studies of the Mexican American Barrio. Based on rich data collected in two poor Mexican-American neighborhoods, this thoughtful and interesting book will draw a lot of attention both inside and outside of academia."--William Julius Wilson, author of "When Work Disappears
"With Dohan's book, we finally receive an in-depth understanding of the nuances of life inside the urban, often poor and working-class, Mexican-American communities. Urban ethnographic scholarship on the poor, dominated too long by the African-American experience for its questions, concerns and voices, now finally has a corrective and a complementary text."--Sudhir Venkatesh, author of "American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
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The Mexican Outsiders: A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination in California » Read Now
by Martha Menchaca. 252 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

People of Mexican descent and Anglo Americans have lived together in the U.S. Southwest for over a hundred years, yet relations between them remain strained, as shown by recent controversies over social services for undocumented aliens in California. In this study, covering the Spanish colonial...
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People of Mexican descent and Anglo Americans have lived together in the U.S. Southwest for over a hundred years, yet relations between them remain strained, as shown by recent controversies over social services for undocumented aliens in California. In this study, covering the Spanish colonial period to the present day, Martha Menchaca delves deeply into interethnic relations in Santa Paula, California, to document how the residential, social, and school segregation of Mexican-origin people became institutionalized in a representative California town. Menchaca lived in Santa Paula during the 1980s, and interviews with residents add a vivid human dimension to her book. She argues that social segregation in Santa Paula has evolved into a system of social apartness—that is, a cultural system controlled by Anglo Americans that designates the proper times and places where Mexican-origin people can socially interact with Anglos. This first historical ethnographic case study of a Mexican-origin community will be important reading across a spectrum of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, race and ethnicity, Latino studies, and American culture.
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Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 » Read Now
by George J. Sanchez. 367 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the largest immigrant group to that city. By focusing...
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Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the largest immigrant group to that city. By focusing on Mexican immigrants to Los Angeles from 1900 to 1945, George J. Sanchez explores the process by which temporary sojourners altered their orientation to that of permanent residents, thereby laying the foundation for a new Mexican-American culture. Analyzing not only formal programs aimed at these newcomers by the United States and Mexico, but also the world created by these immigrants through family networks, religious practice, musical entertainment, and work and consumption patterns, Sanchez uncovers the creative ways Mexicans adapted their culture to life in the United States. When a formal repatriation campaign pushed thousands to return to Mexico, those remaining in Los Angeles launched new campaigns to gain civil rights as ethnic Americans through labor unions and New Deal politics. The immigrant generation, therefore, laid the groundwork for the emerging Mexican-American identity of their children.
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Retrospace: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature, Theory, and History » Read Now
by Bruce-Novoa. 189 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

RetroSpace is a collection of the seminal articles of the noted critic Bruce-Novoa on the history and theory of Chicano literature.
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The Mexican American Employee: A Growing Labor Force, in Public Personnel Management » Read Now
by Paul Kavanaugh, Pail Retish. 12 pgs.

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...together will be referred to as Mexican-Americans. It is recognized that these...In 1980 there were 3,266,000 Mexican-Americans of working age in the U.S...as well as...
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Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief History » Read Now
by Arnoldo De León. 188 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library