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Here, for the first time in English-and from the Mexican
perspective-is the story of Mexican migration to the United States
and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of
people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great
Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform
following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of
Mexican nationals had already moved north and were living in the
United States in one of the twentieth century's most massive
movements of migratory workers. Fernando Saul Alanis Enciso
provides an illuminating backstory that demonstrates how fluid and
controversial the immigration and labor situation between Mexico
and the United States was in the twentieth century and continues to
be in the twenty first. When the Great Depression took hold, the
United States stepped up its enforcement of immigration laws and
forced more than 350,000 Mexicans, including their U.S.-born
children, to return to their home country. While the Mexican
government was fearful of the resulting economic implications,
President Lazaro Cardenas fostered the repatriation effort for
mostly symbolic reasons relating to domestic politics. In
clarifying the repatriation episode through the larger history of
Mexican domestic and foreign policy, Alanis connects the dots
between the aftermath of the Mexican revolution and the relentless
political tumult surrounding today's borderlands immigration
issues.
The late 19th-century imperial surge of the United States greatly
affected Latino Americans. The fourth volume of ""Latino-American
History"", ""Struggling to Become American: 1899-1940"", covers
Puerto Rican and Cuban immigration, along with Mexican migration,
and spotlights Latinos who fought for the United States during
World War I. Students will also find discussion about conditions on
the U.S. homefront, where a great number of Latino laborers were
recruited to work in the railway, steel, meatpacking, construction,
and agriculture industries. The author also describes early
Latino-American struggles for acceptance, equality, and fair
treatment in the United States, particularly during the Great
Depression.
Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date historical overview of
Mexican migration to the U.S., Beyond la Frontera: The History of
Mexico-U.S. Migration examines the transnational and historical
impact of migratory trends as they developed in Mexico and the U.S.
from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring
essays by leading authors in the field, the book utilizes both a
chronological and thematic structure, referencing mutually
influential periods in Mexican and Mexican-American history. Taking
into consideration the bi-national historical factors and narrative
constructions of Mexican migration, Beyond la Frontera also
describes how we may better understand the persistent legislative
debates surrounding migrant rights and national sovereignty.
Here, for the first time in English-and from the Mexican
perspective-is the story of Mexican migration to the United States
and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of
people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great
Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform
following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of
Mexican nationals had already moved north and were living in the
United States in one of the twentieth century's most massive
movements of migratory workers. Fernando Saul Alanis Enciso
provides an illuminating backstory that demonstrates how fluid and
controversial the immigration and labor situation between Mexico
and the United States was in the twentieth century and continues to
be in the twenty first. When the Great Depression took hold, the
United States stepped up its enforcement of immigration laws and
forced more than 350,000 Mexicans, including their U.S.-born
children, to return to their home country. While the Mexican
government was fearful of the resulting economic implications,
President Lazaro Cardenas fostered the repatriation effort for
mostly symbolic reasons relating to domestic politics. In
clarifying the repatriation episode through the larger history of
Mexican domestic and foreign policy, Alanis connects the dots
between the aftermath of the Mexican revolution and the relentless
political tumult surrounding today's borderlands immigration
issues.
As Spanish settlers moved north and Americans moved west, issues
involving land, people, and resources complicated colonial
expansion. The second volume of ""Latino-American History"",
""Independence for Latino America: 1776-1821"" journeys through the
settlement of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Texas
to examine the Latino experience up through the Mexican
Independence Movement.
Following World War II, Latinos, like other Americans, sought the
American Dream. The fifth installment in this important new series
tracks the struggles and progress of Latino Americans through the
mid-1980s. As the U.S. economy grew, so did the need for cheap
labor. In many parts of the United States, Latino Americans and
Latino immigrants provided the solution to this need. Latinos also
joined other groups in the fight for civil rights, seeking both
political and economic equality with their Anglo counterparts. The
result of these struggles was a new sense of Latino-American
identity.
The final volume in the ""Latino-American History"" series brings
readers to the present day. ""Creating a New Future: 1986 to
Present"" reflects the significant changes in the Latino experience
in the United States. Legislation that resulted in an immigration
pool no longer dominated by Europeans forced open the door for U.S.
Latinos to become major players in business, government,
entertainment and the arts, and professional sports. Yet even as
the group grows to make up a sizeable percentage of the American
population, quality of education, medical care, employment, and
housing, among other concerns, continue to be issues.
Visions of the Emerald City is an absorbing historical analysis of
how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced “modernity”
during the lengthy “Order and Progress” dictatorship of
Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911). Renowned as the Emerald City (for its
many buildings made of green cantera stone), Oaxaca City was not
only the economic, political, and cultural capital of the state of
Oaxaca but also a vital commercial hub for all of southern Mexico.
As such, it was a showcase for many of Díaz’s modernizing and
state-building projects. Drawing on in-depth research in archives
in Oaxaca, Mexico City, and the United States, Mark
Overmyer-Velázquez describes how Oaxacans, both elites and
commoners, crafted and manipulated practices of tradition and
modernity to define themselves and their city as integral parts of
a modern Mexico.Incorporating a nuanced understanding of visual
culture into his analysis, Overmyer-Velázquez shows how ideas of
modernity figured in Oaxacans’ ideologies of class, race, gender,
sexuality, and religion and how they were expressed in Oaxaca
City’s streets, plazas, buildings, newspapers, and public
rituals. He pays particular attention to the roles of national and
regional elites, the Catholic church, and popular groups—such as
Oaxaca City’s madams and prostitutes—in shaping the discourses
and practices of modernity. At the same time, he illuminates the
dynamic interplay between these groups. Ultimately, this
well-illustrated history provides insight into provincial life in
pre-Revolutionary Mexico and challenges any easy distinctions
between the center and the periphery or modernity and tradition.
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