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They Came to Toil - Newspaper Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression (Hardcover)
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They Came to Toil - Newspaper Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression (Hardcover)
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As the Great Depression gripped the United States in the early
1930s, the Hoover administration sought to preserve jobs for
Anglo-Americans by targeting Mexicans, including long-time
residents and even US citizens, for deportation. Mexicans comprised
more than 46 percent of all people deported between 1930 and 1939,
despite being only 1 percent of the US population. In all, about
half a million people of Mexican descent were deported to Mexico, a
“homeland” many of them had never seen, or returned voluntarily
in fear of deportation. They Came to Toil investigates how the news
reporting of this episode in immigration history created frames for
representing Mexicans and immigrants that persist to the present.
Melita M. Garza sets the story in San Antonio, a city central to
the formation of Mexican American identity, and contrasts how the
city’s three daily newspapers covered the forced deportations of
Mexicans. She shows that the Spanish-language La Prensa not
surprisingly provided the fullest and most sympathetic coverage of
immigration issues, while the locally owned San Antonio Express and
the Hearst chain-owned San Antonio Light varied between supporting
Mexican labor and demonizing it. Garza analyzes how these media
narratives, particularly in the English-language press, contributed
to the racial “othering” of Mexicans and Mexican Americans.
Adding an important new chapter to the history of the Long Civil
Rights Movement, They Came to Toil brings needed historical context
to immigration issues that dominate today’s headlines.
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