Mexican Workers and American Dreams

Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939

Author: Camille Guerin-Gonzales
ISBN: 0813520487

"Guerin-Gonzales's special contribution is the link she explores between immigrant experience and the American dream. The towering irony her fine book reveals is how an ideology of promise for others was for the Mexican migrants the justification for their exploitation and, when the Great Drepression struck, for expelling many of them from the country."--David Brody, University of California, Davis "Based on exhaustive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, this study offers a richly-textured history of Mexican immigrants in rural California. A work of exceptional breadth, especially with regard to repatriation, [it] is a pivotal contribution to Chicano historiography and immigration studies."--Vicki L. Ruiz, Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor in the Humanities, The Claremont Graduate School In the first forty years of this century, over one million Mexican immigrants moved to the United States, attracted by the prospect of farm work in California. They became workers in industri

Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publish Date: 1994

Subjects: History / General, History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Raza Recource Centro (Location: Wall B)