Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 271
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Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-0-8420-2473-0 • Hardback • April 1996 • $131.00 • (£101.00)
David G. GutiZrrez is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Historical Antecedents
Chapter 3 The Sonoran Migration to California, 1848–1856: A Study in Prejudice
Chapter 4 Always the Laborer, Never the Citizen: Anglo Perceptions of the Mexican Immigrant during the 1920s
Chapter 5 The Importation of Mexican Contract Laborers to the United States, 1942–1964
Part 6 II Political and Cultural Contestation
Chapter 7 La Frontera: the Border as Symbol and Reality in Mexican-American Thought
Chapter 8 Caravans of Sorrow: Noncitizen Americans of the Southwest
Chapter 9 "Star Struck": Acculturation, Adolescence, and the Mexican-American Woman, 1920–1950
Chapter 10 From Ranchero to Jaiton: Ethnicity and Class in Texas-Mexican Music (Two Styles in the Form of a Pair)
Chapter 11 Sin Fronteras?: Chicanos, Mexican Americans, and the Emergence of the Contemporary Mexican Immigration Debate, 1968-1978
Part 12 Contemporary Perspectives
Chapter 13 U.S. Immigration Policy toward Mexico in a Global Economy
Chapter 14 Implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement for Mexican Migration into the United States
Chapter 15 Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism
A much-needed compilation of studies bearing on one of the United States' most perplexing and volatile issues. . . . The essays are interpreted within a larger political and social context by Gutiérrez in his introduction. This outstanding anthology will help us rethink the nature of citizenship and the nation-state.
— Richard Griswold del Castillo, San Diego State University
Between Two Worlds brings together for the first time scholarship that recognizes the multilayered complexity of ethnic Mexican communities in the U.S. . . . Together, these authors explore in clear and concise prose the social, political, cultural, economic, and gendered terrain that simultaneously divides and unifies ethnic Mexicans, both immigrant and U.S.-born.
— Neil Foley, University of Texas at Austin
This volume is a good introduction to Mexican immigrant history in the United States and will be useful in the university classroom. The articles David Gutiérrez has included are written by some of the best scholars in the field. . .
— Journal of the West