Now fully updated by Matt S. Meier to cover the period 1945 through 1988, McWilliams' classic book explores all aspects of the Chicano experience in the United States including family, employment, education, assimilation, political, cultural, and economic issues.
In Spanish Saddlebags The Fantasy Heritage The Fan of Settlement Heart of the Borderlands The Broken Border "Not Counting Mexicans" Gringos and Greasers The Heritage of the Southwest The Borderlands are Invaded The Second Defeat "The Mexican Problem" The Pattern of Violence Blood on the Pavements The War Years After a Hundred Years "One and Together" Chicano Leadership and Organization, by Matt S. Meier Politics, Education, and Culture, by Matt S. Meier North From Mexico, by Matt S. Meier Afterword, by Matt S. Meier Appendix Bibliography Index
CAREY McWILLIAMS was a world-famous journalist and author of Brothers Under the Skin, Factories in the Field, and Witch Hunt among other classics of American labor, ethnic, and political history.
MATT S. MEIER is Patrick A. Donohoe Emeritus Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Santa Clara University. His previous works include Mexican American Biographies: A Historical Dictionary, 1836-1987 (Greenwood, 1988), Bibliography of Mexican American History (Greenwood, 1984), Dictionary of Mexican American History (Greenwood, 1981), and The Chicanos: A History of Mexican Americans (1972).
?McWilliams' survey of Chicano history was first published in 1948
and quickly became a classic. He added a new introduction in 1968
and Matt S. Meier has now brought the work up to date by adding
three chapters on the Chicano experience since World War
II.?-Journal of the Early Republic
"McWilliams' survey of Chicano history was first published in 1948
and quickly became a classic. He added a new introduction in 1968
and Matt S. Meier has now brought the work up to date by adding
three chapters on the Chicano experience since World War
II."-Journal of the Early Republic
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