Mexicans in the making of America /

"Mexicans in the Making of America examines the impact of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants on U.S. culture, politics, and economy since the 1848 U.S.-Mexican War, when the United States seized the northern half of Mexico--the present-day states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Foley, Neil (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Mexican Americans > History.
Mexicans > United States > History.
Immigrants > United States > History.
National characteristics, American.
Transnationalism > History.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Histoire.
Transnationalisme > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Ethnic relations
Immigrants
Mexican Americans
Mexicans
National characteristics, American
International relations
Transnationalism
United States > Relations > Mexico.
Mexico > Relations > United States.
United States > Ethnic relations.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Mexico
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: "America's changing colors"
  • The genesis of Mexican America
  • No estas en tu casa
  • Becoming good neighbors
  • Defending the hemisphere
  • Braceros and the "wetback" invasion
  • The Chicano movement
  • Brave new mundo
  • Fortress America
  • Epilogue: "We are America."

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