Mexican Workers and the American Dream: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 (Class & Culture)
Description
"Guerin-Gonzales's special contribution is the link she explores between immigrant experience and the American dream. The towering irony her fine book reveals is how an ideology of promise for others was for the Mexican migrants the justification for their exploitation and, when the Great Drepression struck, for expelling many of them from the country."--David Brody, University of California, Davis"Based on exhaustive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, this study offers a richly-textured history of Mexican immigrants in rural California. A work of exceptional breadth...
ISBN(s)
0813520487, 9780813520483
