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Mexican Workers And American Dreams » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Mexican Workers And American Dreams by Camille Guerin-Gonzales

Authors: Camille Guerin-Gonzales
ISBN-13: 9780813520483, ISBN-10: 0813520487
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Date Published: May 1994
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Camille Guerin-Gonzales

Book Synopsis

Two contradictory images influenced people's position regarding the ebb and flow of Mexican workers in the US during the four decades, says Guerin-Gonzales (Chicana and Chicano studies, U. of California-Los Angeles). One was that identity was preordained by gender, race, class, and nation; the other was that everyone living and working in the US and contributed to society and the economy was entitled to common freedom and prosperity. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	White American Dreams
1	Pastoral Dreams in California: Foreign Workers and the Business of Family Farming	11
2	Mexican "Birds of Passage": Representations of Mexicans as Foreign Sojourners	25
Pt. II	Racial Limitations of the American Dream
3	Whiteness and Ethnic Identity: Being Mexican in California	51
4	"Mexicans Go Home!": Mexican Removal Programs during the Great Depression	77
Pt. III	Dreaming America
5	Los Repatriados: America's Exiles in Mexico	97
6	Class War in the Fields: Workers, Growers, and New Deal Reformers	111
	Appendix. Repatriation Statistics and Tables	139
	Notes	147
	Index	183