A Social History
Author: Richard Griswold del Castillo
ISBN: 0520047737
"An imponant book .... [which] provides the first detailed analysis of the changes that transformed one of the most important Mexican pueblos in the Southwest into a Chicano urban barrio. Using quantitative data together with traditional secondary and primary historical sources, the author traces the major socio-economic, political, and racial factors that evolved during the post-Mexican War decades and that created a subordinate status for Mexican Americans in a burgeoning American city." --Western Historical Quarterly  "Griswold del Castillo's history of the Mexican community during the first decades of the 'American era' . . . concentrates on the mechanisms which the community adopted as it was confronted by changes in the economic structure of the region, the in-migration of Anglo-Americans as well as Mexicans, and by the effects of racial segregation on the community. [The] aim is to reveal the history of a community undergoing rapid social and economic change, not to write the
Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 1982
Subjects: History / United States / General, History / United States / State & Local / General, History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), Political Science / General
This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Urban Studies & Class (URBN)), Raza Recource Centro (Location: Wall B), Raza Recource Centro (Location: Wall B), Raza Recource Centro (Location: Wall B), Raza Recource Centro (Location: Wall B)