Culture of empire : American writers, Mexico, and Mexican immigrants, 1880-1930 /
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| Author / Creator: | Gonzalez, Gilbert G., 1941- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004. |
| Description: | viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5129415 |
| Summary: | In this history, Gilbert G. Gonzalez traces the development of the culture of empire and its effects on US attitudes and policies toward Mexican immigrants. Following a discussion of the United States' economic conquest of the Mexican economy, Gonzalez examines several hundred pieces of writing by American missionaries, diplomats, business people, journalists, academics, travellers, and others who together created the stereotype of the Mexican peon and the perception of a Mexican problem. He then fully and insightfully discusses how this misinformation has shaped decades of US public policy toward Mexican immigrants and the Chicano (now Latino) community, especially in terms of the way university training of school superintendents, teachers, and counselors drew on this literature in forming the educational practices that have long been applied to the Mexican immigrant community. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0292701861 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0292702078 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
