Mexicanos : a history of Mexicans in the United States

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Label

Mexicanos : a history of Mexicans in the United States

Title remainder

a history of Mexicans in the United States

Statement of responsibility

Manuel G. Gonzales

Creator

• Gonzales, Manuel G

Subject

• History
• Mexican Americans -- History
• Mexican Americans -- history

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and tempered by an often difficult existence, Mexicans continue to play an important role in U.S. society, even as the dominant Anglo culture strives to assimilate them." "Throughout this history, Gonzales attempts to do justice to the variety of experience in what is, after all, a heterogeneous community. He tells of vendidos (sellouts) and heroes, the legendary and the little-known, the failures and the triumphant. Thorough and balanced, Mexicanos makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of the Mexican population of the United States, a growing minority who will be a vital presence in twenty-first-century America."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973/.046872

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

E184.M5

LC item number

G638 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography