Occupied America : a history of Chicanos / Rodolfo Acuña.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acuña, Rodolfo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--History.

Mexican Americans.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 475 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, [1988]

Contents:

Pt. 1. The conquest and colonization of the Southwest

1. Legacy of hate: the conquest of Mexico's northwest

2. Remember the Alamo: the colonization of Texas

3. Freedom in a cage: the colonization of New Mexico

4. Sonora invaded: the occupation of Arizona

5. California lost: America for Anglo-Americans

pt. 2. The cementing of an underclass: the Mexican in the United States

6. The building of the Southwest: Mexican labor, 1900-1930

7. Mexican American communities in the making: the Depression years

8. World War II and the "happy days": Chicano communities under seige

9. Goodbye America: the Chicano in the 1960s

10. The age of the brokers: the new Hispanics

11. The age of the brokers: the Rambo years.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Acuña, Rodolfo. Occupied America.

ISBN:

006040163X

9780060401634

OCLC:

15489697

Publisher Number:

ZBWT00164605