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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dionicio Nodín ValdésPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780292787445ISBN 10: 0292787448 Pages: 406 Publication Date: 01 May 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Mexican Inequality and the Midwest Modeling Chicano Inequality Mexicans and Midwestern Geography Chapter 2: Reckoning with Winter Last of the Immigrants Urban Farmworkers Organizing and the Community Chapter 3: Memory of Hunger The Drive to Repatriate The Internal Colonia Agents of Americanization Chapter 4: Good Solid Workers An Urban Proletariat Dilemmas of Americanism Dismantling the Barrio Chapter 5: El Movimiento: Becoming a Little More Militant Reconstructing a Barrio El Movimiento and the Community Agency and Agencies The Struggle for Knowledge: Chicano Studies Chapter 6: Completing a Circle Migration and Settlement Chasing the Dream Mexican Menace Contradictions of Culture Retrospective Notes Bibliography IndexReviews""This is to date the most comprehensively narrated and researched work on Mexicans in the Midwest... It clearly supersedes [past published works] and is also of higher quality, I think, than most other works published in the field of Chicano studies in recent times."" -Juan Gomez-Quinones, Professor of History, UCLA This is to date the most comprehensively narrated and researched work on Mexicans in the Midwest... It clearly supersedes [past published works] and is also of higher quality, I think, than most other works published in the field of Chicano studies in recent times. -Juan Gomez-Quinones, Professor of History, UCLA Author InformationDionicio Nodín Valdés is Professor of History at Michigan State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |