Mongrels, bastards, orphans, and vagabonds
Subtitle: Mexican immigration and the future of race in America
By: Gregory Rodriguez.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780375713200
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- History.; Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity.; Chicano movement.; Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- History.; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Description: An unprecedented account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican Americans will have on the collective character of our nation.
Table of contents: title: The birth of a people; title: The rise and fall of the Spanish colonial racial system; title: The Spaniards venture North; title: Mexicans and the limits of slavery; title: The Anglos move West; title: Caught between North and South; title: Becoming Mexican American; title: The Chicano movement; title: Mongrel America and the new assimilation.