Description: 1920-1929 1st MEXICAN-AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS of 20TH CENTURY Three publications together:Ernestine Alvarado, “Mexican Immigration to the United States”, pp. 479-481; and Vera L. Sturges, “The Progress of Adjustment in Mexican and United States Life”, pp. 481-486 in Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1920. Complete volume. Laura Hillier Parker, “Migratory Children”, reprinted from National Conference of Social Work, 1927. 10 pp. New York: Council of Women for Home Missions, 1928. Original wrappers. (rubberstamps on front wrappers, rear page creased)Linna E. Bresette, (editor). “Mexicans In The United States. A Report Of A Brief Survey”. Washington, DC: National Catholic Welfare Conference, 1929. 45pp. removed from larger volume; disbound at spine, library tape added. (Ink number on front)Most of the earliest writing about Mexican American immigrants was by social workers, affiliated with a church or missionary group. These three publications were distinguished, not only by their humanitarian concerns about social conditions, especially of migrant children, but also by their determination to dispel racist stereotypes that plagued immigrants of all ethnicities in the reactionary climate of the 1920s.
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