In Defense of La Raza : The Los Angeles Mexican Consulate and the Mexican Community, 1929 to 1936 / Francisco E. Balderrama.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Balderrama, Francisco E.

Contributor:

• American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

• Monographs of the Association for Asian Studies ; no. 40.
• ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
• Association for Asian Studies monograph ; no. 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Mexico. Consulado (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History.
• Mexican Americans--California.
• Malaya--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 178 p. ) maps ;

Place of Publication:

• University of Arizona Press
• Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mexican communities in the United States faced more than unemployment during the Great Depression. Discrimination against Mexican nationals and similar prejudices against Mexican Americans led the communities to seek help from Mexican consulates, which in most cases rose to their defense. Los Angeles's consulate was confronted with the country's largest concentration of Mexican Americans, for whom the consuls often assumed a position of community leadership. Whether helping the unemployed secure repatriation and relief or intervening in labor disputes, consuls uniquely adapted their roles in international diplomacy to the demands of local affairs.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p. 119-132.
• CC BY-NC-ND
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9780816537846
• 0816537844
• 9780816507740
• 0816507740

OCLC:

1109224314

Publisher Number:

2027/heb02464 hdl