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Mexicans in the making of America, Neil Foley

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Summary
"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 (annexed in 1846), Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. From the moment the United States signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the war, America sealed its destiny--and that of Mexico--as two nations, separate and unequal, inextricably linked by geography and bound together by generations of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants. Latino USA is a transnational history of an emergent national identity that includes people of mixed-race and composite, hybrid cultures from Mexico who continue to reside mainly in the American Southwest. At the national level, it is the history of the fear of immigrants, particularly fear of Mexicans over the past fifty years, that has brought us to the present moment--a time in which white majorities in many states are declining and in which the United States is trying to cope, in various ways, with the very thing it denies: that it is not, and has never been, a purely Anglo-American nation"--Provided by publisher
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xi, 344 pages
Contents
  • Prologue: "America's changing colors"
  • The genesis of Mexican America
  • No estás 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."
Isbn
9780674048485
Instance
Label
Mexicans in the making of America
Title
Mexicans in the making of America
Statement of responsibility
Neil Foley
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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 (annexed in 1846), Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. From the moment the United States signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the war, America sealed its destiny--and that of Mexico--as two nations, separate and unequal, inextricably linked by geography and bound together by generations of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants. Latino USA is a transnational history of an emergent national identity that includes people of mixed-race and composite, hybrid cultures from Mexico who continue to reside mainly in the American Southwest. At the national level, it is the history of the fear of immigrants, particularly fear of Mexicans over the past fifty years, that has brought us to the present moment--a time in which white majorities in many states are declining and in which the United States is trying to cope, in various ways, with the very thing it denies: that it is not, and has never been, a purely Anglo-American nation"--Provided by publisher
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Foley, Neil
Dewey number
973/.046872
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
E184.M5
LC item number
F65 2014
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
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  • Mexican Americans
  • Mexicans
  • Immigrants
  • United States
  • Mexico
  • National characteristics, American
  • United States
  • Transnationalism
  • United States
  • Mexico
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Ethnic relations
  • Immigrants
  • Mexican Americans
  • Mexicans
  • National characteristics, American
  • International relations
  • Transnationalism
  • Mexico
  • United States
Label
Mexicans in the making of America, Neil Foley
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue: "America's changing colors" -- The genesis of Mexican America -- No estás 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."
Control code
ocn880959939
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xi, 344 pages
Isbn
9780674048485
Lccn
2014010425
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780674048485
  • (OCoLC)880959939
Label
Mexicans in the making of America, Neil Foley
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Prologue: "America's changing colors" -- The genesis of Mexican America -- No estás 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."
Control code
ocn880959939
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xi, 344 pages
Isbn
9780674048485
Lccn
2014010425
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780674048485
  • (OCoLC)880959939

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