... of a local drug runner who got caught rolling bags of cocaine into the breakfast tacos he sold out of his taqueria in South Texas. She also expands on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s concept of “the danger of a single story.” Mexican drug cartel The Drug War Falfurrias Texas Narco-trafficking Tejano U.S...

..., Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, Maryland, INV 02337900. This chapter illustrates the Pueblos' struggle for land and sovereignty. Long before the arrival of Spaniards, Mexicans, or Americans, the Pueblo Indians were building towns and cultivating fields along the banks of the Rio Grande and its tributaries...

... sugar that could be eaten without further processing—from Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Cuba. The chapter first examines the consequences of changes in the refined sugar tariff in 1930 before discussing the emergence of piloncillo as an alternative to the refined sugar produced by Mexican...

... addresses the ways in which Mexican American women used literature to archive their collective memories, or testimonios. Ruiz de Burton's narrative approach is the first in a series of novels written by Mexican American women to document nineteenth-century Borderlands history. The chapter argues that Ruiz...

... that leave them within a liminal, or in-between space. The chapter suggests that Mexican American women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were precursors to the more radical involvement of women in social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. This chapter also calls attention to the importance...

...This chapter shows how the Whig Party both in and outside of Congress strongly opposed the war, often accusing President James K. Polk of provoking Mexican retaliation. Yet Democrats were generally behind the president. Northeastern merchants, northwestern farmers, and Southern slaveholders...

...Chapter 1 reveals the history of Mexican-American immigrant rights organizing in San Diego and larger Southern California at the intersection of ethnic and labor politics from 1924 to 1968. This chapter reveals that Chicano Movement struggles against the deportation regime are part of a longer...

... Movement ideological narratives with – and influenced the mostly Mexican-American administrators of CASA to a point where their own identities shifted. Migrants infused their narratives about the way border enforcement policies were an intensely repressive presence in their day-to-day lives determining...

... Wolfe Bertram D Zam Herbert Beard Charles Parrington Vernon Leninism New Leader Chamberlain John Wilson Edmund Engels Frederick Hegel G W F Marx Karl Modernism World War II Moscow Purge Trials John Dewey Mexican Hearings American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky Edmund Wilson...

... Mexican nationals ultimately faced dire circumstances at 18 March, as well as how the colony’s poor organization, lack of water, overpopulation, insufficient financing, disease, and lack of housing contributed to the colony’s collapse. Lastly, the chapter notes how, by 1940, repatriated settlers realized...

...This book provides an overview of the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following...

... explores California as an important landscape for establishing a racial hierarchy not only under Mexican rule, but also after it became United States territory (1848), by examining the ways in which African American settlers and other racial minorities in this early period contributed to defining race...

...The fourth chapter sheds new historical insight on a key but little-studied demographic of incarceration in the United States: Mexicanos, including immigrants from Mexico and U.S.-born persons of Mexican descent. It is a story that unfolded across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands but peaked in Los...

...Chapter One reconstructs the lives of the roughly 2,000 Mexican immigrants who lived for a time in New Orleans as refugees or economic migrants from Revolution-era Mexico. The chapter argues that nearly all of them—even those who hailed from working class backgrounds and had darker skin—eventually...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the main themes covered in the book. It sets out the book's purpose, which is to consider issues of women and gender during the Mexican Revolution in order to analyze revolutionary patriarchy and its liberal precedents that thwarted women from...

... intimidation corruption regional press Mexican state governments On June 7, 1976, President Echeverría celebrated the Day of Press Freedom with hundreds of media representatives from Mexico City and the provinces. The event was classic Echeverría-era theatre. Waiters served up an abstemious meal of chicken...

...This chapter discusses the culmination of the Anti-Chinese movement in the depression era. Although authorities allowed some Chinese to remain and others stayed by hiding, officials or angry mobs forced the vast majority of Chinese Men and Chinese Mexican families out of Sonora as well as its...

...Following their expulsion from Mexico, several thousand Chinese and Chinese Mexican families entered the United States as illegal immigrants in the early 1930s. This chapter discusses the refugee crisis in the United States. It discusses the deportation of Chinese refugees from Mexico to China...

...This chapter explores the hopes of aspiring and actual migrants, and specifically the masculinist desire to be modern and its imagined benefits. It notes that this desire was a site of braceros' negotiation with the Mexican government over the gendered form for the nation's modern citizen...