They came to toil : newspaper representations of Mexicans and immigrants in the Great Depression /
As the Great Depression gripped the United States in the early 1930s, the Hoover administration sought to preserve jobs for Anglo-Americans by targeting Mexicans, including long-time residents and even US citizens, for deportation. Mexicans comprised more than 46 percent of all people deported betwe...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2018]
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Edición: | First edition. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. The crisis : they came to toil ... but they could not stay
- 1929 : to pave a way through hostile and barren lands
- 1930 : a thousand times better off with Mexican labor
- 1931 : the tragedy of the repatriated
- 1932/1933 : a new deal for American pioneers
- Conclusion and epilogue.