Crucible of struggle : a history of Mexican Americans from colonial times to the present era /

Crucible of struggle : a history of Mexican Americans from colonial times to the present era /

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Author / Creator:Vargas, Zaragosa, author.
Edition:Second edition.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, [2017].
©2017.
Description:xxi, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Mexican Americans -- History.
Mexican Americans -- Social conditions.
Immigrants -- United States -- History.
Immigrants.
International relations.
Mexican Americans.
Mexican Americans -- Social conditions.
United States -- Relations -- Mexico.
Mexico -- Relations -- United States.
Mexico.
United States.
History.
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11004311
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Varying Form of Title:History of Mexican Americans from colonial times to the present era
ISBN:9780190200787
0190200782
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Ranging from the founding of New Mexico in 1598 to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, Crucible of Struggle vividly outlines and explores the totality of the 500-year Mexican American experience that is woven into the greater context of American history. It maps out current debates in Mexican American history while also incorporating new scholarship from the last thirty years."--Provided by publisher.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • New to this Edition
  • A Note on Terminology
  • Chapter 1. The Era of the Spanish Northern Frontier to 1821
  • Spanish Institutions and Mixed-Race Society of the Northern Frontier
  • The Founding of New Mexico
  • Resisting Spanish Colonization: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
  • Duty to the Crown and Church Fulfilled: The Spanish Reconquest of New Mexico
  • A Buffer Zone Against Expansion: Spanish Colonial Texas
  • The Apache and Comanche Threat in Texas
  • The Condition of the Spanish Texas Colony in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • Guarding the Western Periphery: Spanish Colonial Alta California
  • Mexican Independence Comes to the Northern Frontier
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 2. Life and Society in Mexico's Northern Borderlands, 1821-1846
  • Indian Relations on the Northern Frontier After Mexican Independence
  • Men of the Plains: New Mexican Ciboleros and Comancheros
  • The Opening of Commercial Markets: The Taos Trade Fair and the Santa Fe Trail
  • Conflict in New Mexico: The 1837 Revolt
  • Tejano Life on the Texas Frontier Under Mexico
  • The Never-Ending Indian Menace: Comanche Raids in Texas
  • The Growing Conflict in Texas with Mexico
  • The Drive for Texas Independence
  • Making California Mexican
  • The California Missions: Making Indians Faithful and Industrious Christians
  • The Golden Age of California Ranching
  • The Californio-Era Revolts Against Mexican Rule
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3. Mexican Americans in the Era of War and American Westward Expansion
  • The Southwest on the Eve of the Mexican War
  • The Outbreak of War
  • The American Occupation of New Mexico
  • The 1847 Taos Revolt Against American Occupation of New Mexico
  • The American Occupation of California
  • The Battles at Monterrey and Buena Vista
  • The Enduring Paradox: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4. Mexican Americans from the 1850s to the End of the Civil War
  • Mexican Americans in the Post-conquest Southwest
  • The Californio Banditti Joaquin Murieta and Tiburclo Vasquez
  • Juan Cortina: Champion and Hated Villain of the Texas Border Region
  • Mexican Americans in the American Civil War
  • Mexican Americans in the Indian Wars
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5. Mexican Americans in the Southwest, 1870 to the Early Twentieth Century
  • The Mexican Americans of California
  • The Tejanos and Mexicans of Texas
  • Disenfranchising Tejano Voters as Political Strategy
  • The Mexicans of Arizona and New Mexico
  • The United States and the New Mexico Land Grants Question
  • Las Gorras Blancas and the Struggle to Protect Land Grants
  • Statehood for New Mexico and Arizona?
  • The New Southwest Economy and the First Modern Phase of Mexican Immigration to the United States
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6. Mexican Immigration, Work, Urbanization, and Americanization, 1910-1929
  • Mexican Labor Strife and Struggle
  • Tejano Freedom Fighters: The Plan de San Diego
  • The Killing Fields of South Texas
  • Immigration from Mexico During the Years 1910-1920
  • Mexicans, World War I, and the 1920-1921 Depression
  • Mexican Immigration from 1920 to 1929
  • Mexican Los Angeles
  • Mexicans in the Rocky Mountain and Plains States
  • Mexicans in the Urban Industrial Heartland of the Midwest
  • Mexicans and Social and Cultural Change and Americanization
  • Mexican Mutualism and Fraternalism
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 7. The Mexican American Struggle for Labor Rights in the Era of the Great Depression
  • The Plight of Mexicans in the Early Years of the Great Depression
  • The Repatriation Campaign Unfolds
  • Mexicans in the Era of the National Recovery Act
  • Mexican Women Workers Battle for Equality
  • Mexican Coal Miners Wage War in Gallup
  • Tejano Struggles for Unionism in South Texas
  • Emma Tenayuca Brings Social Justice to San Antonio's Mexicans
  • The 1938 Strike by San Antonio's Pecan Shellers
  • The UCAPAWA Organizes Colorado's Mexican Farm Workers
  • Mexican American CIO Unionists Organize Los Angeles and Southern California
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 8. The Mexican American People in the World War II Era
  • Mexican Americans on the Eve of the Second World War
  • Justice Delayed: The Sleepy Lagoon Incident
  • Mexican Americans and the Sinarquista Menace
  • America's War at Home: The Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots
  • Mexican American GIs on the Pacific and European War Fronts
  • Mexican Americans Fight Against Discrimination: The Case of Los Angeles
  • Mexican American Women War Workers
  • Braceros: The Mexican Contract Labor Program Begins
  • American Race Relations and Mexican Americans
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 9. Mexican Americans in the Postwar Years, 1946-1963
  • Forgotten: The Status of Mexican Americans in Postwar America
  • Mexican Americans in the Early Postwar American Labor Movement
  • The Radicalism of ANMA
  • Mexican Americans and the CSO
  • Mexican Americans Caught in the Web of the Red Scare
  • Mexican Americans in the Dragnets of Operation Wetback and Operation Terror
  • Civil Rights Litigation by Mexican Americans
  • Don't Bow to the Powers That Be: Shifts in the Mexican American Rights Movement
  • Mexican Americans and the Democratic Party
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 10. Mexican Americans in the Protest Era, 1964-1974
  • Viva La Huelga!-Gaining Ground for Farm Workers
  • The People's Choice: Reies López Tijerina and the New Mexico Land Grants Movement
  • Cultural Nationalism and Community Control: The Crusade for Justice
  • A Search for Identity; The Chicano Student Movement
  • Righteous Discontent: The Chicana Women's Movement
  • Raza Sí! Guerra No!-The National Chicano War Moratorium
  • "Pardon My English"-La Raza Unida Party
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 11. Mexican Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century
  • Mexican Americans and Reagan's "New Morning in America"
  • "Tú Voto Es Tú Voz" (Your Vote is Your Voice): Mexican Americans and the Political Process
  • Mexican Americans and the Civil Wars in Central America
  • Unemployment, Drugs, Gang Warfare, and the 1992 Rodney King Riots
  • The 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli Act (IRCA), the English-Only Movement, and Proposition 187
  • "Fight the Power": From the Bakhe Decision to Proposition 209
  • Mexican American Workers Organize
  • "NAFTA's Gonna Shaft Ya": Mexican Americans and NAFTA
  • Latino, a New National Identity, and Continued Latino Immigration
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 12. Latinos and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
  • Latinos and Increased Anti-immigrant Activity After 2006
  • Latinos Help Elect Batack Obama in 2008
  • Latinos Bear the Weight of Deportation
  • Latinos and the Great Recession
  • Latinos and Health Care
  • Individual States Take on Immigration Reform
  • Latinos Stand up for Immigrant Rights
  • The Dreamers and Doers
  • Latinos and the 2012 Reelection of Barack Obama
  • Latinos and Private Detention Centers
  • The Surge of Children from Central America
  • Conclusion
  • Index
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