Mexican Americans & World War II
By: edited by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez.
Contributors: Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.; United States -- Race relations.
Other titles: Mexican Americans and World War II
Notes: "Selected readings": p. [291]-298.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez; title: The five Sanchez brothers in World War II : remembrance and discovery / Rita Sanchez; title: The beating of private Aguirre : a story about West Texas during World War II / David Montejano; title: On the west side : a portrait of Lanier High School during World War II / Julio Noboa; title: Lost momentum : World War II and the education of Hispanos in New Mexico / Lynne Marie Getz; title: The Mexican American dream and World War II : a view from the Midwest / Dionício Valdés; title: Zoot violence on the home front : race, riots, and youth culture during World War II / Luis Alvarez; title: What a difference a war makes! / Maria Eva Flores; title: Framing racism : newspaper coverage of the Three Rivers incident / Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez; title: Mexico's wartime intervention on behalf of Mexicans in the United States : a turning of tables / Emilio Zamora; title: Rosita the Riveter : welding tradition with wartime transformations / Naomi Quiñonez; title: On the nation's periphery : Mexican braceros and the Pacific Northwest railroad industry, 1943-1946 / Erasmo Gamboa.