Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932
By: Juan R. García.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century.; Mexican Americans -- Middle West -- Social conditions.; Mexico -- Emigration and immigration.; Middle West -- Emigration and immigration.
Description: 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 displaced and returned to the U.S. Southwest or to Mexico.

Here is a book that persuasively challenges many prevailing assumptions about Mexican people and the communities they established in the Midwest. The author notes the commonalities and differences between Mexicans in that region and their compadres who settled elsewhere. He further demonstrates that although Mexicans in the Midwest maintained a strong sense of cultural identity, they were quick to adopt the consumer culture and other elements of U.S. life that met their needs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mexican immigration to the United States, 1900-1917; title: Mexicans in the Midwest, 1914-1922; title: Housing and labor; title: Women and work; title: Mexican consuls; title: Issues affecting Mexican organizational efforts; title: Mexican mutual aid societies; title: Social and cultural life of Mexicans in some midwestern cities; title: Mexicans and the early years of the Depression, 1929-1932.