Mexican Americans With Moxie

Author : Frank P. Barajas
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496207637
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Americans with Moxie written by Frank P. Barajas and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank P. Barajas argues that Chicanas and Chicanos of the 1960s and 1970s expressed politics distinct from the Mexican American generation that came of age in the decades before.

Author : Frank P. Barajas
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496230345
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curious Unions written by Frank P. Barajas and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: César E. Chávez came to Oxnard, California, in 1958, twenty years after he lived briefly in the city as a child with his migrant farmworker family during the Great Depression. This time Chávez returned as the organizer of the Community Service Organization to support the unionization campaign of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. Together the two groups challenged the agricultural industry's use of braceros (imported contract laborers) who displaced resident farmworkers. The Mexican and Mexican American populations in Oxnard were involved in cultural struggles and negotiations long before Chávez led them in marches and active protests. Curious Unions explores the ways in which the Mexican community forged intriguing partnerships with other ethnic groups within Oxnard in the first half of the twentieth century and the resulting economic exchanges, cultural practices, and labor and community activism. Frank P. Barajas examines how the Oxnard ethnic Mexican population exercised its agency in alliance with other groups and organizations to meet their needs before large-scale protests and labor unions were engaged. Curious Unions charts how the cultural negotiations that took place in the Oxnard ethnic Mexican community helped shape and empower farm labor organizing.

Author : Frank P. Barajas
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496227360
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Americans with Moxie written by Frank P. Barajas and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mexican Americans with Moxie Frank P. Barajas argues that Chicanas and Chicanos of the 1960s and 1970s expressed politics distinct from the Mexican American generation that came of age in the decades prior. Barajas focuses on the citrus communities of Fillmore and Santa Paula and the more economically diversified and populated rurban municipalities of Oxnard, Simi Valley, and Ventura, illustrating Ventura County’s relationship to Los Angeles and El Movimiento’s ties to suburbanization, freeway construction, and the rise of a high-tech and defense-industry corridor. Mexican Americans with Moxie devotes particular attention to cross-cultural dynamics that transcended space and generation. The residents of Ventura County became involved with national issues such as the Vietnam War, school desegregation, labor, and electoral politics. The actions of Black students at the community colleges of Moorpark and Ventura and other area universities inspired Mexican American youth of Ventura County to assess their own activism. Mexican Americans with Moxie situates the Chicana-Chicano movement within the nation’s struggle to achieve social justice. From this history, readers will gain a new appreciation for how leadership development spans generations and contributes to the identity formation of communities.

Author : Matt S. Meier
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780809015597
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Americans/American Mexicans written by Matt S. Meier and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Mexican-American history from the time of the Spanish conquistadors to the Civil Rights movement and recent immigration laws.

Author : Scott Ingram
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 9780836873160
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Americans written by Scott Ingram and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes why many Mexicans immigrated to the United States and how they adapted to their new environment.

Author : Matt S. Meier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313088608
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mexican American Experience written by Matt S. Meier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican Americans are rapidly becoming the largest minority in the United States, playing a vital role in the culture of the American Southwest and beyond. This A-to-Z guide offers comprehensive coverage of the Mexican American experience. Entries range from figures such as Corky Gonzales, Joan Baez, and Nancy Lopez to general entries on bilingual education, assimilation, border culture, and southwestern agriculture. Court cases, politics, and events such as the Delano Grape Strike all receive full coverage, while the definitions and significance of terms such as coyote and Tejano are provided in shorter entries. Taking a historical approach, this book's topics date back to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a radical turning point for Mexican Americans, as they lost their lands and found themselves thrust into an alien social and legal system. The entries trace Mexican Americans' experience as a small, conquered minority, their growing influence in the 20th century, and the essential roles their culture plays in the borderlands, or the American Southwest, in the 21st century.

Author : Walker Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican-Americans in Comparative Perspective written by Walker Connor and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karl Jacoby
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393253864
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire written by Karl Jacoby and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Phillis Wheatley Book Award "An American 'Odyssey,' the larger-than-life story of a man who travels far in the wake of war and gets by on his adaptability and gift for gab." —Wall Street Journal A black child born on the US-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery, William Ellis inhabited a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the name Guillermo Eliseo, he passed as Mexican, transcending racial lines to become fabulously wealthy as a Wall Street banker, diplomat, and owner of scores of mines and haciendas south of the border. In The Strange Career of William Ellis, prize-winning historian Karl Jacoby weaves an astonishing tale of cunning and scandal, offering fresh insights on the history of the Reconstruction era, the US-Mexico border, and the abiding riddle of race in America.

Author : Antonio Gonzalez Vasquez
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738595225
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Americans in Redlands written by Antonio Gonzalez Vasquez and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redlands has long been home to a large Mexican native and immigrant population that was central to both its booming citrus industry and community life. Images of America: Mexican Americans in Redlands is a journey through this vital, vibrant, and often overlooked culture. Follow longtime residents as they tell their personal stories, share rarely seen photographs, and recall life in the self-proclaimed "City of Millionaires." Experience early Redlands through the eyes of Epimenio Guzman, a blacksmith and musician who came from Los Angeles in 1885 to pursue his trade. Imagine arriving in 1913 when a group of 12 families from Northern Mexico chose Redlands to build the first Spanish-language church in the region. Join young Mexican men and women from Redlands who, through times of war and peace, sacrificed deeply, even giving their lives at times, for the right to be both Mexican and American. These and other stories within are based on the Redlands Oral History Project, a collection of conversations with and images of Mexican Americans throughout the East San Bernardino Valley.

Author : Rudolph V. Alvarado
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0870138855
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Michigan written by Rudolph V. Alvarado and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2003-08-31 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most of their immigrant counterparts, up until the turn of the twentieth century most Mexicans and Mexican Americans did not settle permanently in Michigan but were seasonal laborers, returning to homes in the southwestern United States or Mexico in the winter. Nevertheless, during the past century the number of Mexicans and Mexican Americans settling in Michigan has increased dramatically, and today Michigan is undergoing its third “great wave” of Mexican immigration. Though many Mexican and Mexican American immigrants still come to Michigan seeking work on farms, many others now come seeking work in manufacturing and construction, college educations, opportunities to start businesses, and to join family members already established in the state. In Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Michigan, Rudolph Valier Alvarado and Sonya Yvette Alvarado examine the settlement trends and growth of this population, as well as the cultural and social impact that the state and these immigrants have had on one another. The story of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Michigan is one of a steadily increasing presence and influence that well illustrates how peoples and places combine to create traditions and institutions.