"Providing a fresh interpretive analysis...Gilbert Gonzalez argues
convincingly that the study of Mexican immigration to the United
States, and the delveopment of the Chicano community, demands an
understanding of the consequences of America's economic domination
of Mexico, which followed the U.S. Civil War." -- Southwestern
Historical Quarterly Amidst ongoing efforts to conceptualize the
inevitable but often agonistic intersections of Latin American and
Latino studies, Gilbert Gonzalez's Culture of Empire comes as a
refreshing and valuable intervention. -- The Journal of Latin
American Anthropology "Culture of Empire is an intersection of
intellectual history with Chicano history, labor history, and
Mexican history. It is a historically rich and well-organized study
that promises to confirm the author's profile as one of the
preeminent scholars of Chicano history and transborder studies." --
Zaragosa Vargas, Associate Professor of History, University of
California, Santa Barbara
A history of the Chicano community cannot be complete without
taking into account the United States' domination of the Mexican
economy beginning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, writes Gilbert G. Gonza lez. For that economic conquest
inspired U.S. writers to create a "culture of empire" that
legitimated American dominance by portraying Mexicans and Mexican
immigrants as childlike "peons" in need of foreign tutelage,
incapable of modernizing without Americanizing, that is, submitting
to the control of U.S. capital. So powerful was and is the culture
of empire that its messages about Mexicans shaped U.S. public
policy, particularly in education, throughout the twentiethcentury
and even into the twenty-first.
In this stimulating history, Gilbert G. Gonza lez traces the
development of the culture of empire and its effects on U.S.
attitudes and policies toward Mexican immigrants. Following a
discussion of the United States' economic conquest of the Mexican
economy, Gonza lez examines several hundred pieces of writing by
American missionaries, diplomats, business people, journalists,
academics, travelers, 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 U.S. 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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