"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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Gonzales, Manuel G. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington [u.a.] Indiana Univ. Press 1999
Subjects:	Geschichte Geschichte 1521-1998 Geschichte 1500-2019 Immigranten Mexicaanse Amerikanen Mexican Americans > History Mexican Americans > history Chicanos Mexikaner USA
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.
Physical Description:	X, 322, [16] S. Ill.
ISBN:	0253335205