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Author: Shirley Achor Publisher: ISBN: 9780816505333 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 202
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Explores the culture, attitudes, lifestyles, and social interactions of Mexican Americans--most of whom are third-generation Americans rather than immigrants--in the impoverished West Dallas neighborhood called La Bajura
Author: Shirley Achor Publisher: ISBN: 9780816505333 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
Explores the culture, attitudes, lifestyles, and social interactions of Mexican Americans--most of whom are third-generation Americans rather than immigrants--in the impoverished West Dallas neighborhood called La Bajura
Author: A. K. Sandoval-Strausz Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 1541644433 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
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The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less visible group: Latino and Latina newcomers. Award-winning historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz reveals this history by focusing on two barrios: Chicago's Little Village and Dallas's Oak Cliff. These neighborhoods lost residents and jobs for decades before Latin American immigration turned them around beginning in the 1970s. As Sandoval-Strausz shows, Latinos made cities dynamic, stable, and safe by purchasing homes, opening businesses, and reviving street life. Barrio America uses vivid oral histories and detailed statistics to show how the great Latino migrations transformed America for the better.
Author: Carlos Eliseo Cuéllar Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 264
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This work offers a new look at the history of Fort Worth. The history of this people includes the stories of early Mexicanos, escaping the hardships of the Mexican revolution, to the attempts of second generation Mexican-Americans to assimilate to their political voice and freedoms.
Author: Sol Villasana Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738579795 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 130
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Little Mexico was Dallas's earliest Mexican barrio. "Mexicanos" had lived in Dallas since the mid-19th century. The social displacement created by the Mexican Revolution of 1910, however, caused the emergence of a distinct and vibrant neighborhood on the edge of the city's downtown. This neighborhood consisted of modest homes, small businesses, churches, and schools, and further immigration from Mexico in the 1920s caused its population to boom. By the 1930s, Little Mexico's population had grown to over 15,000 people. The expanding city's construction projects, urban renewal plans, and land speculation by developers gradually began to dismantle Little Mexico. By the end of the 20th century, Little Mexico had all but disappeared, giving way to upscale high-rise residences and hotels, office towers of steel and glass, and the city's newest entertainment district. This book looks at Little Mexico's growth, zenith, demise, and its remarkable renaissance as a neighborhood.
Author: Martha Menchaca Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477324399 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 353
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A historical overview of Mexican Americans' social and economic experiences in Texas For hundreds of years, Mexican Americans in Texas have fought against political oppression and exclusion—in courtrooms, in schools, at the ballot box, and beyond. Through a detailed exploration of this long battle for equality, this book illuminates critical moments of both struggle and triumph in the Mexican American experience. Martha Menchaca begins with the Spanish settlement of Texas, exploring how Mexican Americans’ racial heritage limited their incorporation into society after the territory’s annexation. She then illustrates their political struggles in the nineteenth century as they tried to assert their legal rights of citizenship and retain possession of their land, and goes on to explore their fight, in the twentieth century, against educational segregation, jury exclusion, and housing covenants. It was only in 1967, she shows, that the collective pressure placed on the state government by Mexican American and African American activists led to the beginning of desegregation. Menchaca concludes with a look at the crucial roles that Mexican Americans have played in national politics, education, philanthropy, and culture, while acknowledging the important work remaining to be done in the struggle for equality.
Author: Marc S. Rodriguez Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807834645 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 258
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Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos establish
Author: David J. Weber Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 9780826335104 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
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Dozens of selections from firsthand accounts, introduced by David J. Weber's essays, capture the essence of the Mexican American experience in the Southwest from the time the first pioneers came north from Mexico.
Author: Shirley Achor
Author: Shirley Achor
Author: Shirley Achor
Author: Shirley Achor
Author: A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
Author: Carlos Eliseo Cuéllar
Author: Sol Villasana
Author: Robert S. Bacon
Author: Martha Menchaca
Author: Marc S. Rodriguez
Author: David J. Weber