Description
Book SynopsisContemporary observers often quip that the American Southwest has become Mexicanized, but this view ignores the history of the region as well as the social reality. Mexican people and their culture have been continuously present in the territory for the past four hundred years, and Mexican Americans were actors in United States history long before the national media began to focus on themeven long before an international border existed between the United States and Mexico.
North to Aztlán, an inclusive, readable, and affordable survey history, explores the Indian roots, culture, society, lifestyles, politics, and art of Mexican Americans and the contributions of the people to and their influence on American history and the mainstream culture.
Though cognizant of changing interpretations that divide scholars, Drs. De León and Griswold del Castillo provide a holistic vision of the development of Mexican American society, one that attributes great importance to immigratio
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments VII
1 Native American and Spanish Settlements 1
2 The Spanish/Mexican Northern Frontier 20
3 Natives in a Foreign Land 41
4 The Borderlands in Transition 63
5 The New Colonials: Development, Dispersal, and Diversification, 1910—1930 85
6 Communities Under Stress: Depression and War 110
7 Mexican Americans in Postwar America 135
8 Aztlan Rediscovered: The Chicano Movement 158
9 Latinos and the New Immigrants 182
10 The Dilemmas and Promises of the New Millennium 207
11 Community, Diversity, and Culture: Some Conclusions 227
Chronology 233
Glossary 238
Notes and References 243
Bibliographical Essay 271
Index 285
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
