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Title

Occupied America : a history of Chicanos / Rodolfo F. Acuña.

Author

Acuña, Rodolfo.

Publication

New York : Pearson Longman, c2007.

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Description

xix, 418 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Mexican Americans > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-397) and index.

Contents

• 1. Not just pyramids, explorers, and heroes -- The cradles of civilization -- The corn people -- The Olmeca 1500 BC-500 BC -- The Maya -- Maya hieroglyphic writing -- Maya society -- The decline of Mayan civilization -- Teotihuacán -- Urbanism and trade -- Other corn civilizations -- The Tolteca -- The Tarasco -- The Azteca -- En El Norte -- Conclusion : the world system in 1519 -- The core zones -- The semi-peripheral zones -- The Mesoamerican periphery -- 2. The occupation of Middle America -- Africa begins at the Pyrenees -- The Spanish conquest -- Faith versus rationality -- The Spanish invasion of the Mexica -- The colonization of native Mesoamerica -- Smallpox and other plagues -- The conquest of race and labor in Mesoamerica -- Women in colonial Mesoamerica -- The changing roles of women -- The assimilation of native women -- Al Norte : god, gold, glory, silver, and slaves -- The decline of the indigenous population -- The changing order -- The bonanzas -- Forced labor -- The Northern corridor -- The decline of the native population -- The colonization of Texas -- El Paso del Norte -- The Tlaxcalán and the Castas -- The importance of San Antonio and links to the Río Bravo -- The occupation of Alta California : paradise lost -- Los Indios -- The missions : myth and reality -- Conclusion : on the eve of the Mexican War of Independence -- 3. A legacy of hate : the conquest of Mexico's northwest -- Mexican independence from Spain -- The colonial legacy -- The nation-state -- Background to the invasion of Texas -- Broken promises -- Causes of the war -- Follow the money : the land companies and trade -- Wanna-be Sam Adamses -- The point of no return -- The invasion of Texas -- The pretext : myths of the Alamo -- The defense of the Mexican homeland -- Mexicans win the battles but lose the war -- The invasion of Mexico -- The manufactured war -- An unwarranted aggression -- The pretext for conquest -- Religious justifications for war -- History as propaganda -- The myth of a nonviolent nation -- Peacemakers expose the violence of war -- The San Patricio Battalion -- The war crimes -- Mexicans on the front lines -- The prosecution of the war -- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -- The controversy -- The deception -- The honorable man -- Conclusion --
• 4. Remember the Alamo : the colonization of Texas -- The years between 1836 and 1845 -- To the victor belongs the spoils -- The border -- The founding fathers? -- The robber barons become captains of industry -- Social and political ostracization and control -- The consolidation of Texas wealth -- Socialization -- The Indian savage, the Mexican bandit -- Controlling the Mexicans -- Politics of race and gender -- The resistance -- Runaway slaves -- Trade wars -- Social banditry -- The case of Juan Cortina -- The people's revolt -- The ballad of Gregorio Cortez -- The transformation -- The restructuring -- The railroad and the advent of industrial capitalism -- Mexico comes to Texas -- Reform politics and Mexicans -- The growth of the Mexican population -- The growth of racist nativism -- Mexican resistance -- Conclusion -- 5. Freedom in a cage : the colonization of New Mexico -- On the frontier -- The Santa Fe Trail : the Trojan horse -- Anti-American sentiment -- The Euroamerican invasion -- The Taos revolt -- Inventing tradition -- The transition -- The illusion of inclusion -- Gringos and ricos -- How was it done? -- The Santa Fe ring and the land grab -- The Lincoln County war -- Socialization -- The Americanization of the Catholic Church -- The New Mexican Diaspora -- It's the chili -- New Mexico in Colorado -- The resistance -- The land grabbers -- The village people defend their land -- More illusions of inclusion -- The end of the frontier -- The growth of industrial mining -- Changes in society -- Federal encroachment -- Conclusion -- 6. Sonora invaded : the occupation of Arizona -- The frontier -- The Gadsden purchase -- The silent war with Sonora -- Filibustering expeditions into Sonora -- Mexicans in early Arizona -- Tensions -- "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" -- Marrying up! -- The alliance of elites -- The war against the Apache -- The fate of the "friendly Indian" -- The land-grab- grant -- The transformation of Arizona -- From adobe to copper -- Border conflicts -- The industrialization of Arizona -- The importance of mining -- The expansion of capital -- Industrial mining -- The 1890s : the de-skilling of mine work -- The pull factor -- The impact of industrialization on Mexicans -- Mutual aid societies -- The Mexican middle class -- Small favors to women -- Miners organize : the emergence of trade unions -- It's the water -- Conclusion --
• 7. California lost : America for Euroamericans -- Indians count -- The Spanish occupation -- The Mexican period -- The gap between classes -- No utopia! women and the transformation of California -- The bear flag -- John C. Fremont and the bear flag -- U.S. invasion of California -- Gold transforms California -- The Gold Rush creates a template -- Complicity of the Californios -- Legalized theft : the foreign miners' tax -- Decline of the Californios -- The locusts -- Taxation without representation -- Marrying white -- The whitening of California -- Legitimization of violence -- The Mexican prostitute -- The American dream, the Lugos trial -- The disillusionment -- El Clamor Público -- Class divisions -- Social banditry -- Tiburcio Vásquez -- Mexicans in a changing society -- Becoming a minority -- The church's role -- Labor -- The exclusion of the other -- Colonias -- Conclusion -- 8. Immigration, labor, and generational change -- Overview -- The transformation -- The push -- The pull -- Opposition to Díaz -- The Pinos Altos strike -- Precursors to revolution -- The triangle -- Teresa de Urrea -- Disciplining Mexicans : forty blonde babies -- The Mexican Diaspora -- Exploitation begets resistance -- The struggle for equal education -- The Mexican Revolution -- A changing society -- Mexican workers under siege -- Pancho Villa drives the gringos crazy -- The hysteria : the plan of San Diego -- World War I : the big shift -- Shifts in political consciousness -- Mexican responses to industrial transformation -- The failure of American brotherhood -- The westward movement of king cotton -- Conclusion -- 9. The 1920s : the effects of World War I -- Americanization : a study of extremes -- Protestant Churches and Americanization of the Mexican -- Catholic Churches react to Americanization -- Nationalism versus Americanization -- Mexicans and Mexican Americans -- The influence of World War I on becoming Mexican American -- The League of United Latin American citizens -- The move to the cities -- San Antonio's west side -- Los Angeles : "where only the weeds grow" -- Mexicans in the Midwest and points East -- Mexican labor in the 1920s -- Importance of the sugar-beet industry -- Mexicans in the northwest -- Mexicans in Texas -- Mexicans in the Midwest -- The growth of California agribusiness -- Mexican unions -- Greasers go home -- Keeping America blond and white -- Conclusion --
• 10. Mexican American communities in the making : the depression years -- The Great Depression : La Crisis -- Stresses and strains during La Crisis -- Life during the Great Depression -- The importance of being San Antonio -- Nativist deportations of the 1930s -- Repatriation Texas-style -- The fate of the deportee in Mexico -- Factories in the fields -- Texas farms -- Renting Mexicans -- The farm workers' revolt -- The El Monte strike -- The Tagus Ranch -- The San Joaquín Valley cotton strike -- The Imperial Valley, 1934 -- CUCOM and Mexican strikes -- The Congress of Industrial Organizations -- Rural workers in the Lone Star state -- Colorado and the Manitos -- The city -- Los Angeles Mexican women garment workers -- San Antonio Mexicana workers -- La Pasionaria, the pecan shellers' strike, and San Antonio -- Unionization in Los Angeles -- Labor in the Midwest : Chicago -- The Mexican American miners' revolt -- The Mexican-origin community -- The Los Angeles community -- The Mexican American movement -- El Congreso de los Pueblos de Habla Español -- Fighting segregation -- The Manitos -- Move to the windy city : Chicago -- Conclusion -- 11. World War II : the betrayal of promises -- Changing identities -- World War II and the Mexican -- El Soldado Raso -- The case of Guy Gabaldón -- The story of Company E : the all-Mexican unit -- Racism at home and abroad -- Chicanas go to war -- The home front -- A profile of courage -- Finding scapegoats -- The Sleepy Lagoon Trial -- Mutiny in the streets of Los Angeles -- Mexicanas support the war effort -- Rosita the Riveter -- The Federal Employment Practices Commission -- The making of the Cold War: the politics of control -- Control of labor -- The communists are coming -- Postwar opportunities -- Toward a civil rights agenda -- The American G.I. forum -- A transitional period -- Police and institutional brutality -- Controlling Mexican labor -- The return of farm labor militancy -- Importing Mexicans -- Conclusion -- 12. "Happy days" : Chicano communities under siege -- The Cold War -- The Korean War : historical amnesia -- Keeping America American -- Militarization of the immigration and naturalization service -- The Diaspora : an American odyssey -- The cities -- Seduced by the game -- New Mexico : the illusion of it all -- Los Angeles -- San Antonio -- El Paso -- Civil rights -- The "salt of the Earth" -- Toward equality -- California -- National Spanish-Speaking Council -- The struggle to preserve the barrios -- The FHA Mortgage-Loan and the G.I. Bill -- Urban renewal : the day of the bulldozer -- The Dodgers and Chávez Ravine -- Gentrification in the Midwest -- Conclusion : the importance of 1959 --
• 13. Good-bye, America : the Chicano in the 1960s -- The early 1960s -- Inequality -- Harvest of shame -- High hopes : illusions of the sleeping giant -- San Antonio -- Los Angeles -- Organizing in Chicago -- The building of a civil rights coalition -- Viva Johnson -- Building the great society -- The walkout -- The Black-white syndrome -- The illusion fades -- Impact of the war on poverty -- Magnetization of the border -- The Immigration Act of 1965 -- Mexican American reaction to the memories of nativism -- The road to Delano -- Echoes of Delano -- The road to brown power -- The making of a movement -- The formation of core groups -- The East L.A. walkouts -- Chicana/o student militancy spreads -- The brown berets -- Tlatelolco, Mexico -- "Wild tribes of...the inner mountains of Mexico" -- Gringos and Tejanos -- The land struggle -- The crusade for justice -- Chicanas speak! -- Other Voices -- The Chicano youth movement gains steam -- Where is god? -- Violence at home -- Chicanas/os under siege -- Conclusion -- 14. The 1970s and 1980s : the deconstruction of the sixties -- Redefining racism -- Government legitimizes racism -- The politics of cynicism : Nixon's Hispanic strategy -- Dismantling the war on poverty -- Chicano power -- La Raza Unida Party -- Failure to build a national third party -- The last days of La Raza Unida -- Inequality from within -- Chicana voices -- Inevitable factions -- Las Hermanas -- Sterilization -- The road to Delano -- The Farah strike : the breaking of labor -- Sin Fronteras -- Nativism is racism -- Centro de Acción Social Autonóma-Hermandad de General de Trabajadores -- Get the Mexican bandits -- The media perpetuates racist nativism -- Getting away with terrorism -- In defense of the foreign born -- The growth of the Chicano middle class -- Chicanos as commodities -- Redefinition of the political middle -- Political gains -- Education : the stairway to the American dream -- Education equality -- Importance of the EOPs -- Expanding political vocabularies -- The "Pochoization" of the vocabulary -- The myth of a color-blind society -- Legacy admits -- Why progressive organizations fail -- Violence as an instrument of control -- Conclusion --
• 15. Becoming a national minority : 1980-2001 -- The tyranny of words and actions -- Shared space -- El Salvador -- Nicaragua -- Guatemala -- Mexico -- Manufacturing the crisis -- The militarization of the border -- Organizing immigrant workers -- The hotel and restaurant workers -- The janitors -- From autos to buses -- The miners -- Boycott Levis--and Dockers, too! -- César Chávez and the UFW -- The movement for inclusion -- The sleeping giant -- Texas : the lone star -- Chicago : where the wind blows -- New Mexico : the illusion -- Colorado -- The glass ceiling -- A profile of Chicanas -- Bucking the glass ceiling -- The Tejana gender gap -- Immigrant women workers -- The 1990s : a portrait of inequality -- Can you smell the refried beans? -- Tejano population boom -- California : political gains -- Under the influence of the illusion -- The North American Free Trade Agreement -- The Zapatistas -- "Don't mourn, organize!" -- The political refugees -- Forging communities -- The idealists -- The backlash -- It didn't happen by accident -- Proposition 187 : the American way -- Proposition 209 and the color-blind society -- Proposition 227 : if you speak one language, you're American -- The national scene : census 2000 -- The big three -- The California revolution -- Texas : gringos speaking Spanish -- Chicago -- The Northwest : the spread of the tortilla curtain -- The age of the believers -- Unsettled scores -- Conclusion -- Epilogue : is Antonio Banderas a Chicano? -- Identity and interests -- Where are the other Latinos? -- Not an identifiable minority -- Is there a Latino identity? -- Identifiable Inequality -- Immigration -- The search for equality -- The poor -- "Be all that you can be" -- What's in the future? -- The search for inclusion -- Conclusion -- The map room -- Creating a timeline.

Call Number

IEE (Mexicans) 07-5656

ISBN

• 0321427386
• 9780321427380

LCCN

2006034091

OCLC

73993343

Author

Acuña, Rodolfo.

Title

Occupied America : a history of Chicanos / Rodolfo F. Acuña.

Imprint

New York : Pearson Longman, c2007.

Edition

6th ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-397) and index.

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IEE (Mexicans) 07-5656