Mexican Americans & World War II / edited by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez.

Other author Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoAustin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
Descriptionxiii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
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Variant title Mexican Americans and World War II
Contents Introduction / Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez -- The five Sanchez brothers in World War II : remembrance and discovery / Rita Sanchez -- The beating of private Aguirre : a story about West Texas during World War II / David Montejano -- On the west side : a portrait of Lanier High School during World War II / Julio Noboa -- Lost momentum : World War II and the education of Hispanos in New Mexico / Lynne Marie Getz -- The Mexican American dream and World War II : a view from the Midwest / Dionício Valdés -- Zoot violence on the home front : race, riots, and youth culture during World War II / Luis Alvarez -- What a difference a war makes! / Maria Eva Flores -- Framing racism : newspaper coverage of the Three Rivers incident / Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez -- Mexico's wartime intervention on behalf of Mexicans in the United States : a turning of tables / Emilio Zamora -- Rosita the Riveter : welding tradition with wartime transformations / Naomi Quiñonez -- On the nation's periphery : Mexican braceros and the Pacific Northwest railroad industry, 1943-1946 / Erasmo Gamboa.
Bibliography note"Selected readings": p. [291]-298.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004024343
ISBN0292706510 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780292706514 (alk. paper)
ISBN0292706812 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780292706811 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E184.M5 M513 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold