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Mexican Workers and the American Dream - (Class & Culture) by Camille Guerin-Gonzales (Paperback)

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  • "Guerin-Gonzales's special contribution is the link she explores between immigrant experience and the American dream.
  • About the Author: Camille Guerin-Gonzales is an associate professor and chair of the Cesar Chavez Center for Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
  • 214 Pages
  • Political Science, Labor & Industrial Relations
  • Series Name: Class & Culture

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Earlier in this century, over one million Mexican immigrants moved to the United States, attracted by the prospect of work in California's fields. The Mexican farmworkers were tolerated by Americans as long as there was enough work to go around. During the Great Depression, though, white Americans demanded that Mexican workers and their families return to Mexico. In the 1930s, the federal government and county relief agencies forced the repatriation of half a million Mexicans--and some Mexican Americans as well. Camille Guerin-Gonzales tells the story of their migration, their years here, and of the repatriation program--one of the largest mass removal operations ever sanctioned by the U.S. government. She exposes the powers arrayed against Mexicans as well as the patterns of Mexican resistance, and she maps out constructions of national and ethnic identity across the contested terrain of the American Dream.



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"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 industrial agriculture --barely recognized, never respected, and poorly paid. Native white American workers did not resent the Mexicans during prosperous times, when everyone who wanted to work could do so. But during the Great Depression, native workers began to realize that many of the Mexican workers were here to stay. Native workers, blaming their unemployment on the immigrants, joined with government officials to demand that Mexican workers and their families return to Mexico. During the 1930s, the federal government and county relief agencies cooperated in a nasty repatriation program, forcing half a million Mexicans living in the U.S. to return to Mexico.

Camille Guerin-Gonzales tells the story of their migration, their years here, and of the repatriation program--one of the largest mass removal operations ever sanctioned by the U.S. government.She documents both their efforts to resist and the overpowering forces that worked against them.



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A valuable study of an essential part of American history . . . [and] a demonstration that commitment and compassion can coexist with solid scholarship.--Patricia Nelson Limerick "University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of The Legacy of Conquest"

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 Gradua"

Enriches our understanding of the first four decades of the twentieth century.--David Montgomery "Yale University"

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"



About the Author



Camille Guerin-Gonzales is an associate professor and chair of the Cesar Chavez Center for Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.08 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .82 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 214
Genre: Political Science
Sub-Genre: Labor & Industrial Relations
Series Title: Class & Culture
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Camille Guerin-Gonzales
Language: English
Street Date: May 1, 1994
TCIN: 94312804
UPC: 9780813520483
Item Number (DPCI): 247-13-2719
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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