Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932 /

Early in this century, a few Mexican migrants began streaming northward into the Midwest, but by 1914 - in response to jobs created by the war in Europe and a booming U.S. economy - the stream had become a flood. Barely a generation later, this so-called Immigrant Generation of Mexicans was displace...

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Main Author: García, Juan Ramon.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mexican immigration to the United States, 1900-1917
  • Mexicans in the Midwest, 1914-1922
  • Housing and labor
  • Women and work
  • Mexican consuls
  • Issues affecting Mexican organizational efforts
  • Mexican mutual aid societies
  • Social and cultural life of Mexicans in some midwestern cities
  • Mexicans and the early years of the Depression, 1929-1932.