Crucible of Struggle
A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to the Present Era
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 April 2013
- ISBN 9780195158519
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 235x156x15 mm
- Weight 548 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 55 halftones 0
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Short description:
Ranging from the founding of New Mexico in 1598 to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to the Present Era vividly outlines and explores the totality of the 500-year Mexican American experience that is woven into the greater context of American history.
MoreLong description:
Ranging from the founding of New Mexico in 1598 to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to the Present Era vividly outlines and explores the totality of the 500-year Mexican American experience that is woven into the greater context of American history. It maps out current debates in Mexican American history while also incorporating new scholarship from the last thirty years.
Taking a regional approach that carefully avoids sweeping generalizations about Mexican Americans' experiences—and including and acknowledging the presence and contributions of women—the book covers such diverse topics as gender, Mexican/Native American interactions, and Mexican migration.
The book begins with a discussion of the formative stages of Mexican life and society in the Southwest, including Spanish colonialism and the themes of settlement, Indian and colonial intercultural trade, and Indian resistance; the rise of capitalist agriculture in the 1870s and 1880s; agrarian protest and populism; race relations; and the effect of late-nineteenth-century railroad building on the economics of northern Mexico and on the U.S. and Mexican migration. It goes on to cover a variety
of topics, for example, the first wave of Mexican immigration to the U.S., from the 1910 Mexican Revolution to the early Great Depression, reflecting on the challenges that Mexicans faced in the initial years and their adaptation to their new homeland.
The text also details such key topics as repatriation; the surge of union activism among mine, cannery, and agricultural workers in the 1930s; the appeal of communism and the struggle against fascism; the domestic and overseas warfront experiences of Mexican Americans during World War II; the postwar struggles for economic and social justice; 1960s and 1970s Chicano movement radicalism, including the self-emancipation of Mexican American women; the 1980s multicultural wars spawned by America's
rightward turn, and the ongoing process of globalization and its increasing inequalities as embodied in the North American Free Trade Agreement. The final chapter is an epilogue that considers the post-9/11 anti-immigrant fervor and the implications of the dramatic growth of the Latino population in
the early twenty-first century. Because of its scope of coverage, insight, and readability, Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to the Present Era is a very valuable asset in college and university undergraduate courses on the history of Mexican Americans.
Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
The Era of the Spanish Northern Frontier to 1821
Spanish Institutions and Mixed-Race Society of the Northern Frontier
The Founding of New Mexico
Resisting Spanish Colonization: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Duty to the Crown and Church Fulfilled: The Spanish Reconquest of New Mexico
A Buffer Zone Against Expansion: Spanish Colonial Texas
The Apache and Comanche Threat in Texas
The Condition of the Spanish Texas Colony in the Early Nineteenth Century
Guarding the Western Periphery: Spanish Colonial Alta California
Mexican Independence Comes to the Northern Frontier
Conclusion
CHAPTER 2
Life and Society in Mexico's Northern Borderlands, 1821-1846
Indian Relations on the Northern Frontier After Mexican Independence
Men of the Plains: New Mexican Ciboleros and Comancheros
The Opening of Commercial Markets: The Taos Trade Fair and the Santa Fe Trail
Conflict in New Mexico—the 1837 Revolt
Tejano Life on the Texas Frontier Under Mexico
The Never Ending Indian Menace: Comanche Raids in Texas
The Growing Conflict in Texas with Mexico
The Drive for Texas Independence
Making California Mexican
The California Missions: Making Indians Faithful and Industrious Christians
The Golden Age of California Ranching
The Californio Era Revolts Against Mexican Rule
Conclusion
CHAPTER 3
Mexican Americans in the Era of War and American
Westward Expansion
The Southwest on the Eve of the Mexican War
The Outbreak of War
The American Occupation of New Mexico
The 1847 Taos Revolt Against American Occupation of New Mexico
The American Occupation of California
The Battles at Monterrey and Buena Vista
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: The Enduring Paradox
Conclusion
CHAPTER 4
Mexican Americans from the 1850s to the End of the Civil War
Mexican Americans in the Post-Conquest Southwest
The Californio Banditti Joaquín Murieta and Tiburcio Vasquez
Juan Cortina: Champion and Hated Villain of the Texas Border Region
Mexican Americans in the American Civil War
Mexican Americans Fight in the Indian Wars
Conclusion
CHAPTER 5
Mexican Americans in the Southwest, 1870 to the Early
Twentieth Century
The Mexican Americans of California
The Tejanos and Mexicans of Texas
Disenfranchising Tejanos Voters as Political Strategy
The Mexicans of Arizona and New Mexico
The United States and the New Mexico Land Grants Question
Las Gorras Blancas and El Centillo de Diablo (the Devil's Hatband)
Statehood for New Mexico and Arizona?
The New Southwest Economy and the First Modern Phase of Mexican Immigration to
the United States
Conclusion
CHAPTER 6
Mexican Immigration, Work, Urbanization, and Americanization,
1910-1929
Mexican Labor Strife and Struggle
Tejano Freedom Fighters: The Plan de San Diego
The Killing Fields of South Texas
Immigration from Mexico During the 1910-1920 Years
Mexicans, World War I, and the 1920-1921 Depression
Mexican Immigration from 1920 to 1929
Mexican Los Angeles
Mexicans in the Rocky Mountain and Plains States
Mexicans in the Urban Industrial Heartland
Mexicans and Social and Cultural Change and Americanization
Mexican Mutualism and Fraternalism
Conclusion
CHAPTER 7
The Mexican American Struggle for Labor Rights in the Era of the
Great Depression
The Plight of Mexicans in the Early Years of the Great Depression
The Repatriation Campaign Unfolds
Mexicans in the Era of the National Recovery Act
Mexican Women Workers Battle for Equality
Mexican Coal Miner's Wage War in Gallup
Tejano Struggles for Unionism in South Texas
Emma Tenayuca Brings Social Justice to San Antonio's Mexicans
The 1938 Strike by San Antonio's Pecan Shellers
The UCAPAWA Organizes Colorado's Mexican Farm Workers
Mexican American CIO Unionists Organize Los Angeles and Southern California
Conclusion
CHAPTER 8
The Mexican American People in the World War II Era
Mexican Americans on the Eve of the Second World War
Justice Delayed: The Sleepy Lagoon Incident
Mexican Americans and the Sinarquista Menace
America's War at Home: The Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots
Mexican American GIs on the Pacific and European War Fronts
Mexican Americans Fight Against Discrimination: The Case of Los Angeles
Mexican American Women War Workers
Braceros: The Mexican Contract Labor Program Begins
American Race Relations and Mexican Americans
Conclusion
CHAPTER 9
Mexican Americans in the Postwar Years, 1946-1963
Forgotten: The Status of Mexican Americans in Postwar America
Mexican Americans in the Early Post-War American Labor Movement
The Radicalism of ANMA
Mexican Americans and the Community Service Organization
Mexican Americans Caught in the Web of the Red Scare
Mexican Americans in the Dragnets of Operation Wetback and Operation Terror
Civil Rights Litigation by Mexican Americans
Don't Bow to the Powers that Be: Shifts in the Mexican American Rights Movement
Mexican Americans and the Democratic Party
Conclusion
CHAPTER 10
Mexican Americans in the Protest Era, 1964-1974
Viva La Huelga!-Gaining Ground for Farm Workers
The People's Choice: Reis López Tijerina and the New Mexico Land Grants Movement
Cultural Nationalism and Community Control—The Crusade for Justice
A Search for Identity: The Chicano Student Movement
Righteous Discontent: The Chicana Women's Movement
Raza Sí! Guerra No!-The National Chicano War Moratorium
<"Pardon My English>"—La Raza Unida Party
Conclusion
CHAPTER 11
Mexican Americans at the End of the 20th Century
Mexican Americans and Reagan's <"New Morning in America>"
<"Tú Voto Es Tú Voz>" (Your Vote is Your Voice): Mexican Americans and the Political
Process
Mexican Americans and the Civil Wars in Central America
Unemployment, Drugs, Gang Warfare, and the 1992 Rodney King Riots
The 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli Act, the English-Only Movement, and Proposition
187
<"Fight the Power>": From the Bakke Decision to Proposition 209
Mexican American Workers Organize
<"NAFTA's Gonna Shaft Ya>": Mexican Americans and the North American Free Trade
Agreement
Latino—A New National Identity and Continued Immigration
Conclusion
CHAPTER 12
Epilogue—Mexican Americans in the New Millennium
