Mexicans in the making of America /
Foley, Neil,
Mexicans in the making of America / Neil Foley. - 1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: "America's changing colors" -- The genesis of Mexican America -- No estas en tu casa -- Becoming good neighbors -- Defending the hemisphere -- Braceros and the "wetback" invasion -- The Chicano movement -- Brave new mundo -- Fortress America -- Epilogue: "We are America."
"Mexicans in the Making of America examines the impact of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants on U.S. culture, politics, and economy since the 1848 U.S.-Mexican War, when the United States seized the northern half of Mexico--the present-day states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas (annexed in 1846), Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. From the moment the United States signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the war, America sealed its destiny--and that of Mexico--as two nations, separate and unequal, inextricably linked by geography and bound together by generations of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants. Latino USA is a transnational history of an emergent national identity that includes people of mixed-race and composite, hybrid cultures from Mexico who continue to reside mainly in the American Southwest. At the national level, it is the history of the fear of immigrants, particularly fear of Mexicans over the past fifty years, that has brought us to the present moment--a time in which white majorities in many states are declining and in which the United States is trying to cope, in various ways, with the very thing it denies: that it is not, and has never been, a purely Anglo-American nation"--Provided by publisher.
In English.
9780674735675 (electronic book) 0674735676 (electronic book) (cloth) (cloth)
10.4159/9780674735675 doi
22573/ctt86tvfc JSTOR
2014010425
Mexican Americans--History.
Mexicans--History.--United States
Immigrants--History.--United States
National characteristics, American.
Transnationalism--History.
Américains d'origine mexicaine--Histoire.
Transnationalisme--Histoire.
HISTORY--State & Local--General.--United States
HISTORY--United States--20th Century.
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Ethnic relations.
Immigrants.
Mexican Americans.
Mexicans.
National characteristics, American.
International relations.
Transnationalism.
United States--Relations--Mexico.
Mexico--Relations--United States.
United States--Ethnic relations.
United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
États-Unis--Relations interethniques.
Mexico.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
E184.M5 / F65 2014eb
973/.046872
Mexicans in the making of America / Neil Foley. - 1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: "America's changing colors" -- The genesis of Mexican America -- No estas en tu casa -- Becoming good neighbors -- Defending the hemisphere -- Braceros and the "wetback" invasion -- The Chicano movement -- Brave new mundo -- Fortress America -- Epilogue: "We are America."
"Mexicans in the Making of America examines the impact of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants on U.S. culture, politics, and economy since the 1848 U.S.-Mexican War, when the United States seized the northern half of Mexico--the present-day states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas (annexed in 1846), Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. From the moment the United States signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the war, America sealed its destiny--and that of Mexico--as two nations, separate and unequal, inextricably linked by geography and bound together by generations of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants. Latino USA is a transnational history of an emergent national identity that includes people of mixed-race and composite, hybrid cultures from Mexico who continue to reside mainly in the American Southwest. At the national level, it is the history of the fear of immigrants, particularly fear of Mexicans over the past fifty years, that has brought us to the present moment--a time in which white majorities in many states are declining and in which the United States is trying to cope, in various ways, with the very thing it denies: that it is not, and has never been, a purely Anglo-American nation"--Provided by publisher.
In English.
9780674735675 (electronic book) 0674735676 (electronic book) (cloth) (cloth)
10.4159/9780674735675 doi
22573/ctt86tvfc JSTOR
2014010425
Mexican Americans--History.
Mexicans--History.--United States
Immigrants--History.--United States
National characteristics, American.
Transnationalism--History.
Américains d'origine mexicaine--Histoire.
Transnationalisme--Histoire.
HISTORY--State & Local--General.--United States
HISTORY--United States--20th Century.
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Ethnic relations.
Immigrants.
Mexican Americans.
Mexicans.
National characteristics, American.
International relations.
Transnationalism.
United States--Relations--Mexico.
Mexico--Relations--United States.
United States--Ethnic relations.
United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
États-Unis--Relations interethniques.
Mexico.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
E184.M5 / F65 2014eb
973/.046872