Testimonio

Testimonio

A documentary history of the Mexican-American struggle for civil rights

  • Autor: Rosales, F. Arturo
  • Editor: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558852990
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611923025
  • Lugar de publicación:  Houston , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación: 2000
  • Páginas: 448

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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