Major problems in Mexican American history : documents and essays / edited by Zaragosa Vargas.

[TofC cont.] Struggle and strife, social conditions of Mexican Americans, 1910-1917: Reverend Pedro Grado addresses El Congreso Mexicanista, 1911; Mexican immigrant women in El Paso, Texas / M.T. Garcia -- Mexican immigrant experience, 1917-1928: Anita Edgar Jones surveys Mexican life in Chicago, 19...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Major problems in American history series.
Other Authors: Vargas, Zaragosa
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [1999], ©1999.
Series:Major problems in American history series.
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Physical Description:xvii, 483 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Partial Contents:
  • Interpreting the Chicano past: Alternative approaches to Chicano history / G.G. Gonzalez and R. Fernandez; Recent approaches to Chicano history / A.M. Saragoza
  • Precolonial period: Pueblo Indians call for war, 1680; Cultural roots of ancient Southwest Indians / C.G. Velez-Ibanez; Sexual violence and the politics of conquest in Alta California / A.I. Castaneda
  • Early Mexicano communities on the Northern frontier, the Spanish colonial period to 1821: Bishop Pedro Tamaron y Romeral visits New Mexico, 1760; Gender, race, and culture in the history of the California frontier / A.I. Castaneda
  • Early Mexicano life and society in the Southwest, 1821-1846: Joshua Gregg paints a picture of La Tules; Creating the myth of the Alamo / H.B. Brear
  • Mexican Americans after the Mexican War, 1848-1860: John Rollin Ridge reflects on the life of Joaquin Murieta, 1850; Origins of nativism in California / L. Pitt
  • Conflict and community among Mexican Americans in the Southwest, late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Gregorio Cortez is immortalized in song, 1901; Unmarried women of Santa Fe, 1850-1880 / D.J. Gonzalez [Cont. in Annot.]