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xi, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"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...
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xiii, 424 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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"During the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of Aztlán, homeland of the ancient Aztecs, served as a unifying force in an emerging cultural renaissance. Does the term remain useful? This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection of essays about Aztlán weighs its value. To encompass new developments in the discourse the editors have added six new essays."--Publisher's website.
9) They should stay there: the story of Mexican migration and repatriation during the Great Depression
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English
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"Here, for the first time in English--and from the Mexican perspective--is the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of Mexican nationals had already moved north and were living in the...
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9 audio discs (approximately 600 min. each, approximately 5400 min. total) : digital, MP3 file ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Pacifica Radio has been chronicling 20th century political, cultural and artistic movements for over 60 years. The Pacifica Radio Archive is one of the oldest and deepest audio collections in the world, including documentaries, performances, discussions, debates, drama, poetry readings, commentaries and radio arts. This set contains 90-hours of selected material by Pacifica Archives collaborators and advisors presented in mp3 format on 9 discs.
"The...
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