Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929–1939
| dc.contributor.author | Hoffman, Abraham | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-15T23:46:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-15T23:46:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1974 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/632278 | |
| dc.description | During the Great Depression, nearly half a million Mexican Americans were repatriated to Mexico, either voluntarily or by coercion. Historian Abraham Hoffman provides a dramatic case study of the movement in Los Angeles and a survey of the repatriation process throughout the United States. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as part of the Humanities Open Book Program funded jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | Foreword by Julian Nava -- Author's Note -- 1. The Border Is That Way -- 2. Mexican Movements Into the United States -- 3. Closing America's Back Door -- 4. Focus on Los Angeles -- 5. Reactions and Actions -- 6. Repatriation From Los Angeles -- 7. Repatriation Across the Country -- 8. The Dilemma in Mexico -- 9. Tapering Off -- Appendixes -- A. The Vocabulary of Repatriation -- B. Visel's Publicity Release -- C. Los Angeles County Repatriation Shipments and Costs -- D. Total U.S. Repatriation by Months, 1929-1937 -- References -- Source Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Contents -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Mexican Families at Arizona Depot -- Raid on Los Angeles Plaza -- Los Angeles Train Departure -- Automobile Caravan, Karnes City, Texas -- MAPS -- Mexican Destinations for Los Angeles Repatriates -- U.S. Departure Points and Mexican Destinations. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ) | en_US |
| dc.relation.url | https://open.uapress.arizona.edu | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright © 1974 by The Arizona Board of Regents. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.source | University of Arizona Press | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mexicans—United States—History | |
| dc.subject | Mexico—Emigration and immigration | |
| dc.subject | United States—Emigration and immigration | |
| dc.title | Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929–1939 | en_US |
| dc.type | book | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.description.collectioninformation | This title from the Open Arizona collection is made available by the University of Arizona Press and University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions about this title, please contact the UA Press at https://uapress.arizona.edu/contact. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.eisbn | 978-0-8165-3778-5 | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2019-05-15T23:46:00Z |
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