The second edition of Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to
the Present Era includes a new final chapter that examines such issues as increased anti-immigrant
activity after 2006, the crucial role of Latinos in the election of Barack Obama, increased border
enforcement and deportation in the wake of the U.S. Senate's failure to pass amnesty legislation,
Latinos and private detention centers, the role of individual states in immigration reform, the surge
of unaccompanied children from Central America, and more.
Author(s): Zaragosa Vargas
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 461
Tags: Mexican American, Crucible, Struggle,
Table of Contents......Page 8
Ch 1: The Era of the Spanish Northern Frontier to 1821......Page 24
Ch 2: Life and Society in Mexico's Northern Borderlands, 1821-1846......Page 62
Ch 3: Mexican Americans in the Era of War and American Westward Expansion......Page 103
Ch 4: Mexican Americans from the 1850s to the End of the Civil War......Page 136
Ch 5: Mexican Americans in the Southwest, 1870 to the Early Twentieth Century......Page 167
Ch 6: Mexican Immigration, Work, Urbanization, and Americanization, 1910-1929......Page 200
Ch 7: The Mexican American Struggle for Labor Rights in the Era of the Great Depression......Page 235
Ch 8: The Mexican American People in the World War II Era......Page 264
Ch 9: Mexican Americans in the Postwar Years, 1946-1963......Page 293
Ch 10: Mexican Americans in the Protest Era, 1964-1974......Page 327
Ch 11: Mexican Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century......Page 365
Ch 12: Latinos and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century......Page 398
Index......Page 438
