Mexican-American Gateway
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Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Mexico
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Mexico
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Author : Calexico Intercultural Design
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Education, Bilingual
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Author : Robert S. Weddle
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0292785615
Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 1978 In their efforts to assert dominion over vast reaches of the (now U.S.) Southwest in the seventeenth century, the Spanish built a series of far-flung missions and presidios at strategic locations. One of the most important of these was San Juan Bautista del Río Grande, located at the present-day site of Guerrero in Coahuila, Mexico. Despite its significance as the main entry point into Spanish Texas during the colonial period, San Juan Bautista was generally forgotten until the first publication of this book in 1968. Weddle's narrative is a fascinating chronicle of the many religious, military, colonial, and commerical expeditions that passed through San Juan and a valuable addition to knowledge of the Spanish borderlands. It won the Texas Institute of Letters Amon G. Carter Award for Best Southwest History in 1969.
Author : Stephen A. Carney
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780160723742
CMH Pub 73-1. The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Mexican War. At head of title on cover: The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Mexican War. One of a series of eight brochures about the Mexican War. Discusses Brig. General Zachary Taylor's campaign for Monterrey, Mexico
Author : Erin Rose Michaels
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Children of immigrants
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Author : Scott Ingram
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780836873160
Describes why many Mexicans immigrated to the United States and how they adapted to their new environment.
Author : Patricia Zavella
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0822350351
DIVStudies poor and working-class Mexicans in the USA, showing how migration influences the creation of identity, family, and community and how it affects even those who don't themselves actually migrate./div
Author : George J. Sanchez
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 1995-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195096484
Twentieth century Los Angeles has been the focus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between distinct cultures in U.S. history. In this pioneering study, Sanchez explores how Mexican immigrants "Americanized" themselves in order to fit in, thereby losing part of their own culture.
Author : David G. Gutiérrez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 1995-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0520202198
Covering more than one hundred years of American history, Walls and Mirrors examines the ways that continuous immigration from Mexico transformed—and continues to shape—the political, social, and cultural life of the American Southwest. Taking a fresh approach to one of the most divisive political issues of our time, David Gutiérrez explores the ways that nearly a century of steady immigration from Mexico has shaped ethnic politics in California and Texas, the two largest U.S. border states. Drawing on an extensive body of primary and secondary sources, Gutiérrez focuses on the complex ways that their pattern of immigration influenced Mexican Americans' sense of social and cultural identity—and, as a consequence, their politics. He challenges the most cherished American myths about U.S. immigration policy, pointing out that, contrary to rhetoric about "alien invasions," U.S. government and regional business interests have actively recruited Mexican and other foreign workers for over a century, thus helping to establish and perpetuate the flow of immigrants into the United States. In addition, Gutiérrez offers a new interpretation of the debate over assimilation and multiculturalism in American society. Rejecting the notion of the melting pot, he explores the ways that ethnic Mexicans have resisted assimilation and fought to create a cultural space for themselves in distinctive ethnic communities throughout the southwestern United States.
Author : Elliott Young
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 2004-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0822386402
Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border rescues an understudied episode from the footnotes of history. On September 15, 1891, Garza, a Mexican journalist and political activist, led a band of Mexican rebels out of South Texas and across the Rio Grande, declaring a revolution against Mexico’s dictator, Porfirio Díaz. Made up of a broad cross-border alliance of ranchers, merchants, peasants, and disgruntled military men, Garza’s revolution was the largest and longest lasting threat to the Díaz regime up to that point. After two years of sporadic fighting, the combined efforts of the U.S. and Mexican armies, Texas Rangers, and local police finally succeeded in crushing the rebellion. Garza went into exile and was killed in Panama in 1895. Elliott Young provides the first full-length analysis of the revolt and its significance, arguing that Garza’s rebellion is an important and telling chapter in the formation of the border between Mexico and the United States and in the histories of both countries. Throughout the nineteenth century, the borderlands were a relatively coherent region. Young analyzes archival materials, newspapers, travel accounts, and autobiographies from both countries to show that Garza’s revolution was more than just an effort to overthrow Díaz. It was part of the long struggle of borderlands people to maintain their autonomy in the face of two powerful and encroaching nation-states and of Mexicans in particular to protect themselves from being economically and socially displaced by Anglo Americans. By critically examining the different perspectives of military officers, journalists, diplomats, and the Garzistas themselves, Young exposes how nationalism and its preeminent symbol, the border, were manufactured and resisted along the Rio Grande.