Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction (Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez)
- Chapter 1. The Five Sanchez Brothers in World War II:
Remembrance and Discovery (Rita Sanchez)
- Chapter 2. The Beating of Private Aguirre: A Story about West
Texas during World War II (David Montejano)
- Chapter 3. On the West Side: A Portrait of Lanier High School
during World War II (Julio Noboa)
- Chapter 4. Lost Momentum: World War II and the Education of
Hispanos in New Mexico (Lynne Marie Getz)
- Chapter 5. The Mexican American Dream and World War II: A View
from the Midwest (Dionício Valdés)
- Chapter 6. Zoot Violence on the Home Front: Race, Riots, and
Youth Culture during World War II (Luis Alvarez)
- Chapter 7. What a Difference a War Makes! (Maria Eva
Flores)
- Chapter 8. Framing Racism: Newspaper Coverage of the Three
Rivers Incident (Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez)
- Chapter 9. Mexico’s Wartime Intervention on Behalf of Mexicans
in the United States: A Turning of Tables (Emilio Zamora)
- Chapter 10. Rosita the Riveter: Welding Tradition with Wartime
Transformations (Naomi Quiñonez)
- Chapter 11. On the Nation's Periphery: Mexican Braceros and the
Pacific Northwest Railroad Industry, 1943-1946 (Erasmo Gamboa)
- Selected Readings
- About the Writers
- Index
Promotional Information
A celebration of the overlooked contributions of the 750,000
Mexican American veterans of the "Greatest Generation"
Promotional Information
A celebration of the overlooked contributions of the 750,000
Mexican American veterans of the "Greatest Generation"
About the Author
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez is Associate Professor of Journalism at
the University of Texas at Austin. In 1999, she launched the U.S.
Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project, which has so
far gathered more than 450 interviews. This book is, in part, an
outgrowth of that research.
Reviews
This text makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature
on the Mexican American experience.
*Western Historical Quarterly*
This book provides a much-needed resource for historians of World
War II and as a historical backdrop to the generational origins of
the Chicano civil rights movements.
*Hispanic Outlook*
Never in one book has the diversity of the wartime Mexican American
experience been covered so fully.
*Military History of the West*
