TY - BOOK AU - Foley,Neil TI - Mexicans in the making of America SN - 9780674735675 AV - E184.M5 F65 2014eb U1 - 973/.046872 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Mexican Americans KW - History KW - Mexicans KW - United States KW - Immigrants KW - National characteristics, American KW - Transnationalism KW - Américains d'origine mexicaine KW - Histoire KW - Transnationalisme KW - HISTORY KW - State & Local KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - 20th Century KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Social aspects KW - fast KW - Ethnic relations KW - International relations KW - Relations KW - Mexico KW - États-Unis KW - Relations interethniques KW - Electronic books KW - lcgft N1 - 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." N2 - "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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=852333 ER -