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PublisherUniversity of Texas Press

ISBN-100292737181

ISBN-139780292737181

eBay Product ID (ePID)111929254

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Book TitleMexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States

Number of Pages332 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLatin America / Mexico, Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, International Relations / General, United States / General

Publication Year2012

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History

AuthorJohn Tutino

Book SeriesCmas History, Culture, and Society Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight24.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN2011-040168

ReviewsThis is a solid collection of essays that makes a convincing case that the past and present of Mexico and the United States are inseparableâ€¦In that way, this collection represents an excellent contribution to the ongoing public and academic debate., This intriguing anthology provides a broad rethinking of the social, cultural, and economic intertwining of the vast territory that eventually became the southwestern United States and the Republic of Mexicoâ€¦. Each of the volume's well-known contributors pursues a different angle in exploring Tutino's thesis. The result is an eclectic and provocative collection of essays on regional ecological and pastoral history; American literary and cultural depictions of Mexico; regional cultural carry-overs, conflicts, and exchanges; and cultural politics and the evolution of an overarching transnational political economy binding the region's numerous peoples., Mexico & Mexicans in the Making of the United States is long overdue. It addresses a significant hole in American historiography: the extensive and influential role of Mexicoâ€¦..Mexico & Mexicans in the Making of the United States is a dynamic beginning, which will hopefully inspire many more to add to this conversation.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal973/.046872

SynopsisTracing economic, social, and cultural connections from colonial times until today, this book highlights the foundational contributions of Mexico and Mexicans to the United States, Tracing economic, social, and cultural connections from colonial times until today, this book highlights the foundational contributions of Mexico and Mexicans to the United States., Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration and the drug war. Placing Mexicans and Mexico in the center of American history, this volume elucidates how economic, social, and cultural legacies grounded in colonial New Spain shaped both Mexico and the United States, as well as how Mexican Americans have constructively participated in North American ways of production, politics, social relations, and cultural understandings. Combining historical, sociological, and cultural perspectives, the contributors to this volume explore the following topics: the Hispanic foundations of North American capitalism; indigenous peoples' actions and adaptations to living between Mexico and the United States; U.S. literary constructions of a Mexican "other" during the U.S.-Mexican War and the Civil War; the Mexican cotton trade, which helped sustain the Confederacy during the Civil War; the transformation of the Arizona borderlands from a multiethnic Mexican frontier into an industrializing place of "whites" and "Mexicans"; the early-twentieth-century roles of indigenous Mexicans in organizing to demand rights for all workers; the rise of Mexican Americans to claim middle-class lives during and after World War II; and the persistence of a Mexican tradition of racial/ethnic mixing--mestizaje--as an alternative to the racial polarities so long at the center of American life.

LC Classification NumberE184.M5M536 2012