Beginning with the early 1800s and extending to the modern era, Rosales collects illuminating documents that shed light on the Mexican-American quest for life, liberty, and justice. Documents include petitions, correspondence, government reports, political proclamations, newspaper items, congressional testimony, memoirs, and even international treaties.
- Cover page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter one. Nineteenth-Century Mexicans in the Southwest and Civil Rights
- Early signs of Manifest destiny
- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- The 'Gadsen Purchase'
- Angelinos Resist
- Tejanos Lose Land
- Anglo Squatters in Arizona
- Maintainning Spanish
- Social Bandits
- Las gorras blancas
- The legacy of the Vallejos
- An Old-timer in phoenix
- Guadalupe Vallejo
- Catarino Garza
- Chapter two. 'The brown Scare': The mexican revolution as a source of conflict
- Ricardo flores magón
- 'Low-lifed mexican'
- The 'Brown Scare'
- 'A conspiracy has been unearthed'
- The texas rangers
- El plan de San Diego
- 'A favor for an Old Mexican Rancher'
- The porvenir massacre
- Canales testifies against the rangers
- 'Could not live with them on genial terms'
- The dangerous crossing
- Chapter three. Worls War I and massive immigration in the 1920s
- 'For the most part they return'
- Crossing the border
- 'Far from bein undesirables'
- Wiaves to the 1917 Act
- 'Gaining the Precious Genes of Nordics'
- Alonso S. Perales and Mexican Immigration
- The race question
- 'Give their places to Americans'
- The 1929 Act
- Mexican Americans support inmigrants
- 'To rid this community of mexicans'
- Chapter four. Inmigrant mobilization
- 'The spirit and solidarity of brotherhood'
- Mexicaness and racial pride
- Then León Cárdenas Martínez Case
- La liga protectora latina
- America for America
- 'An American...who Loves mexican people'
- The celemency movements
- Aurelio Pompa
- Vida, proceso, y muerte de Aurelio Pompa-corrido
- Desegregation Succes-Arizona
- Desegregation Succes-California
- Desegregation Failure-Kansas
- A mexican Colonia During the great Depression
- Chapter five. Mexican Goverment and El México de Afuera
- Mexicans on Death Row
- The Draft Issue During World War I
- Mistreatment and the need for mexican labor
- Documenting Mistreatment
- The comisiones honoríficas mexicanas and Las Brigadas de la cruz azul Mexicans
- Mexican Study of inmigrant conditions
- The Mexican Government and segregation
- Police as Ciminals
- Mob Violence towards Mexicans
- Lázaro cárdenas and mexican inmigration policy
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