Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to

Description: Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to the Present Era by Zaragosa Vargas Ranging from the founding of New Mexico in 1598 to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to the Present Era vividly outlines and explores the totality of the 500-year Mexican American experience that is woven into the greater context of American history. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Latinos in the U.S. are a major political, economic, and cultural force which is changing the national identity of this country. In fact, statistics show that by the year 2100, half of the United States population may be Latino. And two of every three of Americas Latinos are Mexican. Mexicans are the oldest settelers of the United States, and they are also the nations largest group of recent immigrant arrivals. Their population is increasing faster than thatof all other Latino groups combined. The growing importance of this minority group, which will be felt strongly in twenty-first century America, calls for a fresh assessment of Mexican American history. Author Biography Zaragosa Vargas is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is the editor of "Major Problems in Mexican American History" (1999). Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTSPREFACEIntroductionCHAPTER 1The Era of the Spanish Northern Frontier to 1821 Spanish Institutions and Mixed-Race Society of the Northern Frontier The Founding of New MexicoResisting Spanish Colonization: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680Duty to the Crown and Church Fulfilled: The Spanish Reconquest of New MexicoA Buffer Zone Against Expansion: Spanish Colonial TexasThe Apache and Comanche Threat in TexasThe Condition of the Spanish Texas Colony in the Early Nineteenth CenturyGuarding the Western Periphery: Spanish Colonial Alta CaliforniaMexican Independence Comes to the Northern FrontierConclusionCHAPTER 2Life and Society in Mexicos Northern Borderlands, 1821-1846Indian Relations on the Northern Frontier After Mexican IndependenceMen of the Plains: New Mexican Ciboleros and ComancherosThe Opening of Commercial Markets: The Taos Trade Fair and the Santa Fe TrailConflict in New Mexico--the 1837 RevoltTejano Life on the Texas Frontier Under MexicoThe Never Ending Indian Menace: Comanche Raids in TexasThe Growing Conflict in Texas with MexicoThe Drive for Texas IndependenceMaking California MexicanThe California Missions: Making Indians Faithful and Industrious ChristiansThe Golden Age of California RanchingThe Californio Era Revolts Against Mexican RuleConclusionCHAPTER 3Mexican Americans in the Era of War and American Westward ExpansionThe Southwest on the Eve of the Mexican WarThe Outbreak of WarThe American Occupation of New MexicoThe 1847 Taos Revolt Against American Occupation of New MexicoThe American Occupation of CaliforniaThe Battles at Monterrey and Buena VistaThe Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: The Enduring ParadoxConclusionCHAPTER 4 Mexican Americans from the 1850s to the End of the Civil WarMexican Americans in the Post-Conquest SouthwestThe Californio Banditti Joaquín Murieta and Tiburcio VasquezJuan Cortina: Champion and Hated Villain of the Texas Border RegionMexican Americans in the American Civil WarMexican Americans Fight in the Indian WarsConclusionCHAPTER 5Mexican Americans in the Southwest, 1870 to the Early Twentieth CenturyThe Mexican Americans of CaliforniaThe Tejanos and Mexicans of TexasDisenfranchising Tejanos Voters as Political StrategyThe Mexicans of Arizona and New MexicoThe United States and the New Mexico Land Grants QuestionLas Gorras Blancas and El Centillo de Diablo (the Devils Hatband)Statehood for New Mexico and Arizona?The New Southwest Economy and the First Modern Phase of Mexican Immigration to the United StatesConclusionCHAPTER 6Mexican Immigration, Work, Urbanization, and Americanization, 1910-1929Mexican Labor Strife and StruggleTejano Freedom Fighters: The Plan de San DiegoThe Killing Fields of South TexasImmigration from Mexico During the 1910-1920 YearsMexicans, World War I, and the 1920-1921 DepressionMexican Immigration from 1920 to 1929Mexican Los AngelesMexicans in the Rocky Mountain and Plains StatesMexicans in the Urban Industrial Heartland Mexicans and Social and Cultural Change and AmericanizationMexican Mutualism and FraternalismConclusionCHAPTER 7The Mexican American Struggle for Labor Rights in the Era of theGreat DepressionThe Plight of Mexicans in the Early Years of the Great DepressionThe Repatriation Campaign UnfoldsMexicans in the Era of the National Recovery ActMexican Women Workers Battle for EqualityMexican Coal Miners Wage War in GallupTejano Struggles for Unionism in South TexasEmma Tenayuca Brings Social Justice to San Antonios MexicansThe 1938 Strike by San Antonios Pecan ShellersThe UCAPAWA Organizes Colorados Mexican Farm WorkersMexican American CIO Unionists Organize Los Angeles and Southern CaliforniaConclusionCHAPTER 8The Mexican American People in the World War II EraMexican Americans on the Eve of the Second World WarJustice Delayed: The Sleepy Lagoon IncidentMexican Americans and the Sinarquista MenaceAmericas War at Home: The Los Angeles Zoot Suit RiotsMexican American GIs on the Pacific and European War FrontsMexican Americans Fight Against Discrimination: The Case of Los AngelesMexican American Women War WorkersBraceros: The Mexican Contract Labor Program BeginsAmerican Race Relations and Mexican AmericansConclusionCHAPTER 9Mexican Americans in the Postwar Years, 1946-1963Forgotten: The Status of Mexican Americans in Postwar AmericaMexican Americans in the Early Post-War American Labor MovementThe Radicalism of ANMAMexican Americans and the Community Service OrganizationMexican Americans Caught in the Web of the Red ScareMexican Americans in the Dragnets of Operation Wetback and Operation TerrorCivil Rights Litigation by Mexican AmericansDont Bow to the Powers that Be: Shifts in the Mexican American Rights MovementMexican Americans and the Democratic PartyConclusionCHAPTER 10Mexican Americans in the Protest Era, 1964-1974Viva La Huelga!-Gaining Ground for Farm WorkersThe Peoples Choice: Reis López Tijerina and the New Mexico Land Grants MovementCultural Nationalism and Community Control--The Crusade for JusticeA Search for Identity: The Chicano Student MovementRighteous Discontent: The Chicana Womens MovementRaza Sí! Guerra No!-The National Chicano War Moratorium": Mexican Americans and the North American Free Trade AgreementLatino--A New National Identity and Continued ImmigrationConclusionCHAPTER 12Epilogue--Mexican Americans in the New Millennium Review I teach a course in Chicano History every year, and have for twenty years now...A text or synthesis is utterly essential, now more than ever...I think that the prospectus is reflective and thoughtful about current research...the content and coverage are appropriate...Professor Vargas writing is...more accessible than many others, less burdened with jargon or miscellaneous details...I would use this book and I would urge colleagues to do the same. -Francisco Balderama, Cal State, LAI concur [with Vargas] that the leading extant Mexican American history textbooks are deficient in one or more serious ways. There is ample room for "another one volume overview of Mexican American history"...I am convinced that Vargas writing is accessible to undergraduates; he most certainly writes clearly and interestingly...I would adopt the textbook that Vargas is prospoing. I know he is an excellent historian. -Deena Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount CollegeAlready a leading scholar of Chicano labor history, Vargas ranks among the most prominent practitioners of Latino Studies, and his project will be well-received by both specialists and more general readers. Vargas books and articles have received considerable attention from a wide range of U.S. historians and have been popular with my students. Few specialist stand more ready than Vargas to undertake a sweeping new history of Mexican Americans. -Stephen Pitti, Yale University Long Description Latinos in the U.S. are a major political, economic, and cultural force which is changing the national identity of this country. In fact, statistics show that by the year 2100, half of the United States population may be Latino. And two of every three of Americas Latinos are Mexican. Mexicans are the oldest settelers of the United States, and they are also the nations largest group of recent immigrant arrivals. Their population is increasing faster than thatof all other Latino groups combined. The growing importance of this minority group, which will be felt strongly in twenty-first century America, calls for a fresh assessment of Mexican American history. Review Text I teach a course in Chicano History every year, and have for twenty years now...A text or synthesis is utterly essential, now more than ever...I think that the prospectus is reflective and thoughtful about current research...the content and coverage are appropriate...Professor Vargas writing is...more accessible than many others, less burdened with jargon or miscellaneous details...I would use this book and I would urge colleagues to do the same. -Francisco Balderama, Cal State, LAI concur [with Vargas] that the leading extant Mexican American history textbooks are deficient in one or more serious ways. There is ample room for "another one volume overview of Mexican American history"...I am convinced that Vargas writing is accessible to undergraduates; he most certainly writes clearly and interestingly...I would adopt the textbook that Vargas is prospoing. I know he is an excellent historian. -Deena Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount CollegeAlready a leading scholar of Chicano labor history, Vargas ranks among the most prominent practitioners of Latino Studies, and his project will be well-received by both specialists and more general readers. Vargas books and articles have received considerable attention from a wide range of U.S. historians and have been popular with my students. Few specialist stand more ready than Vargas to undertake a sweeping new history of Mexican Americans. -Stephen Pitti, Yale University Review Quote I teach a course in Chicano History every year, and have for twenty years now...A text or synthesis is utterly essential, now more than ever...I think that the prospectus is reflective and thoughtful about current research...the content and coverage are appropriate...Professor Vargas writing is...more accessible than many others, less burdened with jargon or miscellaneous details...I would use this book and I would urge colleagues to do the same. I concur [with Vargas] that the leading extant Mexican American history textbooks are deficient in one or more serious ways. There is ample room for "another one volume overview of Mexican American history"...I am convinced that Vargas writing is accessible to undergraduates; he most certainly writes clearly and interestingly...I would adopt the textbook that Vargas is prospoing. I know he is an excellent historian. Already a leading scholar of Chicano labor history, Vargas ranks among the most prominent practitioners of Latino Studies, and his project will be well-received by both specialists and more general readers. Vargas books and articles have received considerable attention from a wide range of U.S. historians and have been popular with my students. Few specialist stand more ready than Vargas to undertake a sweeping new history of Mexican Americans. -Stephen Pitti, Yale University "An excellent survey of Mexican American history from colonial times to the present. . . Focused mainly on the structural forces that have shaped socio-economic conditions of Mexicans in the U. S., Crucible of Struggle is sure to quickly replace the canonic texts now available for teaching Mexican American history."--Ram Feature Selling point: Showcases the diversity of experience among people of Mexican descent in AmericaSelling point: Maps out current debates in Mexican American history, while touching on scholarship of the last 30 yearsSelling point: Covers gender, Mexican/Native American interactions, and Chicano migration Details ISBN0195158512 Author Zaragosa Vargas Short Title CRUCIBLE OF STRUGGLE Pages 432 Publisher Oxford University Press, USA Series AAR AIDS for the Study of Religion Language English ISBN-10 0195158512 ISBN-13 9780195158519 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 973.046 Illustrations Yes Affiliation University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Year 2010 Publication Date 2010-09-03 Audience College/Higher Education Subtitle A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to the Present Era Imprint Oxford University Press USA Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2010-09-23 NZ Release Date 2010-09-23 US Release Date 2010-09-23 UK Release Date 2010-09-23 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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