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| Document Type: | Book |
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Rodolfo Acuña |
| ISBN: | 9780205786183 0205786189 |
| OCLC Number: | 457157338 |
| Description: | xx, 436 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Chapter 1 Not Just Pyramids, Explorers, and Heroes The Cradles of Civilizations The Corn People: An Overview The Olmeca 1500 bc--500 bc The Maya Maya Hieroglyphic Writing Maya Society The Decline of Mayan Civilization Teotihuacan Urbanism and Trade Los Tolteca Other Corn Civilizations The Tarasco The Azteca Los Nortenos Conclusion: The World System in 1519 Chapter 2 The Occupation of Middle America What Drove the Conquest Africa Begins at the Pyrenees The Spanish Conquest Faith Versus Rationality The Spanish Invasion of the Mexica The Colonization of Native Mesoamerica Smallpox and Other Plagues The Conquest of Race and Labor in Mesoamerica Women in Colonial Mesoamerica The Changing Roles of Women The Assimilation of Native Women Al Norte: God, Gold, Glory, Silver, and Slaves The Decline of the Indigenous Population The Changing Order The Bonanzas Forced Labor The Northern Corridor The Decline of the Native Population The Colonization of Texas El Paso del Norte The Tlaxcalan and the Castas The Importance of San Antonio and Links to the Rio Bravo The Occupation of Alta California: Paradise Lost Los Indios The Missions: Myth and Reality Conclusion: On the Eve of the Mexican War of Independence Chapter 3 Legacy of Hate: The Conquest of Mexico's Northwest What's the Evidence? Mexican Independence from Spain Background to the Invasion of Texas Broken Promises Follow the Money: The Land Companies and Trade Wanna-Be Sam Adamses The Point of No Return The Invasion of Texas The Pretext: Myths of the Alamo The Defense of the Mexican Homeland Mexicans Win the Battles but Lose the War The Invasion of Mexico The Manufactured War An Unwarranted Aggression The Pretext for Conquest Religious Justifications for War History as Propaganda Peacemakers Expose the Violence of War The San Patricio Battalion The War Crimes Mexicans on the Front Lines The Prosecution of the War The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo The Controversy The Deception The Honorable Man Conclusion SECTION ESSAY: THE BORDERS CROSSED US Chapter 4 Remember the Alamo: The Colonization of Texas The Years Between 1836 and 1845 Crossing the Northwest Texas Mexican Border The Mexican Corridor Control of the Corridor Trade Wars and the Rise of Juan Cortina Enter "Cheno" Cortina The Civil War The Transformation Hang'em High! The Historian as an Agent of Social Control Controlling the Mexicans Politics of Race and Gender Resistance The People's Revolt The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez Boss Rule The Railroad and the Advent of Industrial Capitalism Mexico Comes to Texas Reform Politics and Mexicans The Growth of the Mexican Population The Growth of Racist Nativism Mexican Resistance Conclusion Chapter 5 Freedom in a Cage: The Colonization of New Mexico On the Frontier The Santa Fe Trail: The Trojan Horse Anti-American Sentiment The Euro-American Invasion The Taos Revolt: The Myth of the Bloodless Conquest Inventing Whiteness The Transition The Illusion of Inclusion Gringos and Ricos How Was It Done? The Santa Fe Ring and the Land Grab The Lincoln County War Socialization The Americanization of the Catholic Church The New Mexican Diaspora The Marketplace New Mexico in Colorado The Resistance Barb Wire, Irrigation and the Railroad The Village People Defend Their Land More Illusions of Inclusion The End of the Frontier The Growth of Industrial Mining Changes in Society Federal Encroachment Conclusion Chapter 6 Sonora Invaded: The Occupation of Arizona The Frontier The Gadsden Purchase The War with Sonora Filibustering Expeditions into Sonora Mexicans in Early Arizona The War of the Races The Race Question Marrying Up! The Alliance of Elites The War Against the Apache The Fate of the "Friendly Indian" The Land-Grab Grant The Transformation of Arizona From Adobe to Copper Border Conflicts The Pull Factor The Industrialization of Arizona The Importance of Mining The Expansion of Capital Industrial Mining The 1890s: The De-Skilling of Mine Work The Impact of Industrialization on Mexicans Mutual Aid Societies The Mexican Middle Class Small Favors to Women Miners Organize: The Emergence of Trade Unions It's the Water Conclusion Chapter 7 California Lost: Image and Reality The Myth That Has Become Legend The Mexican Period The Class Gap Women in the Transformation of California The Bear Flag John C. Fremont and the Bear Flag U.S. Invasion of California Gold Transforms California The Gold Rush Creates a Template Complicity of the Californios Legalized Theft: The Foreign Miners' Tax Decline of the Californios The Locusts Taxation Without Representation Marrying White Legalizing Racism Legitimization of Violence The Mexican Prostitute The American Dream, The Lugos Trial The Disillusionment El Clamor Publico Class Divisions Social Banditry I am Joaquin! Mexicans in a Changing Society Becoming a Minority The Church's Role Labor The Exclusion of the Other Colonias Conclusion SECTION ESSAY: EMPIRE Chapter 8 Immigration, Labor, and Generational Change Overview Ideas Cross Borders Justice Knows No Borders Industrial Bonanzas The Nurturing of Ideas The Mexican Diaspora It Is all about Making a Buck Forging a Community The Mexican Revolution Bullets Across The Border Hysteria Across the Border In Defense of the Community A Changing Society Mexican Workers Under Siege The Hysteria: The Plan of San Diego World War I: The Shift Shifts in Political Consciousness Mexican Responses to Industrial Transformation The Failure of American Brotherhood The Westward Movement of King Cotton Conclusion Chapter 9 The 1920s: The Effects of World War I Americanization: A Study of Extremes Protestant Churches and Americanization of the Mexican Catholic Churches React to Americanization Nationalism Versus Americanization Mexicans and Mexican Americans The Influence of World War I on Becoming Mexican American The League of United Latin American Citizens The Move to the Cities San Antonio's West Side Los Angeles: "Where Only the Weeds Grow" Mexicans in the Midwest and Points East Mexican Labor in the 1920s Importance of the Sugar-Beet Industry Mexicans in the Northwest Mexicans in Texas Mexicans in the Midwest The Growth of California Agribusiness Mexican Unions Greasers Go Home Keeping America Blond and White Conclusion Chapter 10 Mexican American Communities in the Making: The Depression Years The Great Depression: La Crisis Stresses and Strains During La Crisis Life During the Great Depression The Importance of Being San Antonio Nativist Deportations of the 1930s Repatriation Texas-Style The Fate of the Deportee in Mexico Factories in the Fields Texas Farms Renting Mexicans The Farm Workers' Revolt The El Monte Strike The Tagus Ranch The San Joaquin Valley Cotton Strike The Imperial Valley, 1934 CUCOM and Mexican Strikes The Congress of Industrial Organizations Rural Workers in the Lone Star State Colorado and the Manitos The City Los Angeles Mexican Women Garment Workers San Antonio Mexicana Workers La Pasionaria, the Pecan Shellers' Strike, and San Antonio Unionization in Los Angeles Labor in the Midwest: Chicago The Mexican American Miners' Revolt The Mexican-Origin Community The Los Angeles Community The Mexican American Movement El Congreso de los Pueblos de Habla Espanol Fighting Segregation The Manitos Move to the Windy City: Chicago Conclusion Chapter 11 World War II: The Betrayal of Promises Mexican Americans World War II and the Mexican The Case of Guy Gabaldon The Story of Company E: The All-Mexican Unit Racism at Home and Abroad Chicanas in the Military A Profile of Courage Finding Scapegoats The Sleepy Lagoon Trial Mutiny in the Streets of Los Angeles Mexicanas Break Barriers Rosita the Riveter The Federal Employment Practices Commission Cold War Politics of Control The Communists Are Coming Postwar Opportunities Toward a Civil Rights Agenda The American G.I. Forum Controlling Mexicans The Return of Farm Labor Militancy Renting Mexicans Conclusion Chapter 12 "Happy Days": Chicano Communities Under Siege The Cold War The Korean War: Historical Amnesia Keeping America American Militarization of the Immigration and Naturalization Service The Diaspora: An American Odyssey The Cities El Paso: In Search of a Home Seduced by the Game New Mexico: The Illusion of It All Los Angeles San Antonio El Paso Civil Rights The "Salt of the Earth" Toward Equality California National Spanish-Speaking Council The Struggle to Preserve the Barrios The FHA Mortgage-Loan and the G.I. Bill Urban Renewal: The Day of the Bulldozer The Dodgers and Chavez Ravine Gentrification in the Midwest Conclusion: The Importance of 1959 241 Chapter 13 Goodbye America: The Chicano in the 1960s The Early 1960s Inequality Harvest of Shame High Hopes: Illusions of the Sleeping Giant San Antonio Los Angeles Organizing in Chicago The Building of a Civil Rights Coalition Viva Johnson Building the Great Society The Walkout Bilingual Ed The Black--White Syndrome The Illusion Fades Impact of the War on Poverty Magnetization of the Border The Immigration Act of 1965 Mexican American Reaction to the Memories of Nativism The Road to Delano Echoes of Delano The Road to Brown Power The Making of a Movement The Formation of Core Groups The East L.A. Walkouts Chicana/o Student Militancy Spreads The Brown Berets Tlatelolco, Mexico "Wild Tribes of ! the Inner Mountains of Mexico" Gringos and Tejanos The Land Struggle The Crusade for Justice El Grito del Norte Other Voices The Chicano Youth Movement Gains Steam Where Is God? Violence at Home Chicanas/os Under Siege The Provocateurs Conclusion Chapter 14 The 1970s and 1980s: Redefining the 1960s Redefining Racism Government Legitimizes Racism The Politics of Cynicism: Nixon's Hispanic Strategy Dismantling the War on Poverty Chicano Power La Raza Unida Party Failure to Build a National Third Party The Last Days of La Raza Unida Inequality from Within Chicana Voices Inevitable Factions The Birth of Chicano Studies Sterilization The Road to Delano The Farah Strike: The Breaking of Labor Sin Fronteras Nativism Is Racism Centro de Accion Social Autonoma-Hermandad de General de Trabajadores Get the Mexican Bandits The Media Perpetuates Racist Nativism Getting Away with Terrorism In Defense of the Foreign Born The Growth of the Chicano Middle Class Chicanos as Commodities Redefinition of the Political Middle Political Gains Education: The Stairway to the American Dream Education Equality Importance of the EOPs Competing Ideologies The "Pochoization" of the Vocabulary The Myth of a Color-Blind Society Legacy Admits Why Progressive Organizations Fail Violence as an Instrument of Control The Final Year of the Decade Conclusion Chapter 15 Becoming a National Minority: 1980--2001 The Decade of the Hispanic The Central American Wave: Immigration 1980s The Mexican Wave: Immigration 1980s Reaction to the Little Brown Brothers The Militarization of the Border Mexican American Labor The Movement for Inclusion: The Politicos The Glass Ceiling Immigrant Women Workers ?Gobernar es Poblar? The North American Free Trade Agreement "Don't Mourn, Organize!" The Political Refugees from Central America Forging Communities Believers: Chicana/o Studies The Renaissance in Chicana/Chicano Thought and Arts Hate Is Tax Deductible The National Scene: Census 2000 Political Roundup: 2000 Some Things Never Change: Police Brutality Conclusion Chapter 16 Losing Fear: Decade of Struggle and Hope The Question Who Are Latinos? Where Do They Live? Mexican Americans and 9/11 The Stairway to Heaven: Electoral Politics Protection of the Foreign Born How Else Can You Teach Them a Lesson? Losing Their Fear EPILOGUE Is Antonio Banderas a Chicano? The Map Room Creating a Timeline Book Notes |
| Responsibility: | Rodolfo F. Acuña. |
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"An excellent job explaining the role of race, class divisions, and gender in the developing political, social, and cultural interactions between Anglos and Mexicans in Texas and New Mexico." - Ashley Sousa, West Valley College "I sincerely think that Dr. Acuna does provides an excellent analysis throughout his book because he is constantly making connections with Mexico and this inclusion help the student understand immigration, social movements and ideology." - Laura Larque, Santa Rosa Junior College "I consider Rodolfo Acuna's Occupied America: A History of Chicanos as one of the few books that offers a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the major historical experiences of Chicanos that invokes critical thinking and intellectual discussion." - James Barrera, South Texas College Read more...
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