Walls and Mirrors - Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity

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List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. LEGACIES OF CONQUEST
2. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND IMMIGRATION, 1890-1920
3. THE SHIFTING POLITICS OF ETHNICITY IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD
4. THE CONTRADICTIONS OF ETHNIC POLITICS, 1940-1950
5. ETHNIC POLITICS, IMMIGRATION POLICY, AND THE COLD WAR
6. SIN FRONTERAS? THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE

Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

David G. Gutiérrez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

Summary

Covering more than one hundred years of American history, this title examines the ways that continuous immigration from Mexico transformed - and continues to shape - the political, social, and cultural life of the American Southwest.

Product details

• Authors: David G. Guti?rrez, David G. Gutia1/2rrez, David Gutierrez, David G. Gutierrez, David G. Gutiérrez, Gutierrez David G.
• Assisted by: David G. Gutiérrez (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.1995
• EAN: 9780520202191
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20219-1
• No. of pages: 321
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / United States / General, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Physical anthropology, Civics and citizenship, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples