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Author | : Robert Garland Landolt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Richard A. Garcia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Mexican Americans |
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Download The Making of the Mexican-American Mind, San Antonio, Texas, 1929-1941 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Mexicans |
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Hearing held by Ruben Salazar into the conditions of life and work among Mexican Americans in San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 1968.
Author | : Richard A. Garcia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
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Download Rise of the Mexican American Middle Class Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Arnoldo De León |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
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Download Mexican Americans in Texas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Like its ground-breaking predecessor, the first general survey of Tejanos, this completely up-to-date revision is a concise political, cultural, and social history of Mexican Americans in Texas from the Spanish colonial era to the present. Professor De Len is careful to portray Tejanos as active subjects, not merely objects in the ongoing Texas story. Complemented by a stunning photographic essay, a helpful glossary, and meticulously annotated, this work continues to be ideal reading for anyone wanting to learn about the most influential ethnic group in Texas.
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Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Market surveys |
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Download Market Profile Highlights of the Mexican-American Population of San Antonio, Texas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Zaragosa Vargas |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2013-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400849284 |
Download Labor Rights Are Civil Rights Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement in twentieth-century America. Absorbing and meticulously researched, Labor Rights Are Civil Rightspaints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930s to the postwar era. Drawing on extensive archival research, Vargas focuses on the large Mexican American communities in Texas, Colorado, and California. As he explains, the Great Depression heightened the struggles of Spanish speaking blue-collar workers, and employers began to define citizenship to exclude Mexicans from political rights and erect barriers to resistance. Mexican Americans faced hostility and repatriation. The mounting strife resulted in strikes by Mexican fruit and vegetable farmers. This collective action, combined with involvement in the Communist party, led Mexican workers to unionize. Vargas carefully illustrates how union mobilization in agriculture, tobacco, garment, and other industries became an important vehicle for achieving Mexican American labor and civil rights. He details how interracial unionism proved successful in cross-border alliances, in fighting discriminatory hiring practices, in building local unions, in mobilizing against fascism and in fighting brutal racism. No longer willing to accept their inferior status, a rising Mexican American grassroots movement would utilize direct action to achieve equality.
Author | : Emilio Zamora |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781603440660 |
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For Mexican workers on the American home front during World War II, unprecedented new employment opportunities contrasted sharply with continuing discrimination, inequality, and hardship.
Author | : Julia Kirk Blackwelder |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780890968642 |
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Even before the Depression, unemployment, low wages, substandard housing, and poor health plagued many women in what was then one of America's poorest cities--San Antonio. Divided by tradition, prejudice, or law into three distinct communities of Mexican Americans, Anglos, and African Americans, San Antonio women faced hardships based on their personal economic circumstances as well as their identification with a particular racial or ethnic group. Women of the Depression, first published in 1984, presents a unique study of life in a city whose society more nearly reflected divisions by the concept of caste rather than class. Caste was conferred by identification with a particular ethnic or racial group, and it defined nearly every aspect of women's lives. Historian Julia Kirk Blackwelder shows that Depression-era San Antonio, with its majority Mexican American population, its heavy dependence on tourism and light industry, and its domination by an Anglo elite, suffered differently as a whole than other American cities. Loss of migrant agricultural work drove thousands of Mexican Americans into the barrios on the west side of San Antonio, and with the intense repatriation fervor of the 1930s, the fear of deportation inhibited many Mexican Americans from seeking public or private aid. The author combines excerpts from personal letters, diaries, and interviews with government statistics to present a collective view of discrimination and culture and the strength of both in the face of crisis.
Author | : Camilo Amado Martínez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Alien labor, Mexican |
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Download The Mexican and Mexican-American Laborers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, 1870-1930 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The primary purpose of this study was to present the little-discussed Mexican and Mexican-American labor contribution to the economic development of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas between 1870 and 1930. Special attention was given to their efforts in the citrus industry which became a major enterprise. Immigration laws, local and national Anglo attitudes and their effects on this numerous and apparently submissive people were discussed in length. Due credit has been given to the Burgos, Tamaulipas, residents who came to the Valley before, during, and after the Mexican Revolution in search of stability and better wages. In spite of the abuses they suffered some of them decided to stay. Their children (now Mexican-Americans), are still contributing to the citrus industry today, although not in the strenuous way their parents did. The various attempts which were made to develop the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas prior to the coming of the railroad in 1904 were all but futile. This situation, however, did not restrain Anglo businessmen from coming to the region in search of prosperity. They saw its potential if the available resources were properly tapped. The combination of inexpensive Valley land and cheap Mexican and Mexican-American labor attracted entrepreneurs to the area. They bought brushlands, had them cleared, and started irrigation projects in preparation for the crops they experimented with. Although not all Anglos prospered it was not because of the labor force they employed, but rather, to some extent, because of the poor transportation system available. They employed Mexicans and Mexican-Americans for all types of work. With the coming of modern transportation the Valley broke its economic isolation and in the process everyone benefited: Anglos from the use of cheap labor and Mexicans and Mexican-Americans from jobs which had previously been non-existent. The Valley owes a tremendous debt to those businessmen with foresight who encouraged the construction of a railroad line through the Valley and built irrigation systems, but the greatest debt for its success, as presented in this work, is owed to the Mexicans and Mexican-Americans.