Major problems in Mexican American history : documents and essays

ch. 1. Interpreting the Chicano past --
Essays --
Alternative approaches to Chicano history / Gilbert G. González, Raúl Fernández --
Recent approaches to Chicano history / Alex M. Saragoza --
Chicano/a historians and the revision of Western history / David G. Guitérrez --
Further reading --
ch. 2. The precolonial period --
Documents --
1. A Franciscan friar describes the land and people of New Mexico, 1541 --
2. Spain asserts control over the Indians of Nueva Galicia, Mexico, 1570 --
3. The Pueblo Indians call for war, 1680 --
4. Teodoro de Croix reports on pacifying the Indians in California, 1781 --
5. Colonel Don Antonio Cordero discusses the Apaches, 1796 --
Essays --
Cultural roots of ancient Southwest Indians / Carlos G. Véliz-Ibáñez --
The Indians of the Southwest in 1492 / Carroll L. Riley --
Sexual violence and the politics of conquest in Alta California / Antonia I. Castañeda --
Further reading --
ch. 3. Early Mexicano communities on the Northern frontier, the Spanish colonial period to 1821 --
Documents --
1. Bishop Pedro Tamarón y Romeral visits New Mexico, 1760 --
2. Captain Pierre Marie François de Pagès reports on early settlements in Texas, 1767 --
3. Survivor María Ana Montielo recounts the Indian uprising at Yuma, Arizona, 1781 --
4. Jean Franc̜ois La Pérouse describes the Mission Indians of Carmel, California, 1786 --
5. Justice of the peace Cornelio Vigil restores a land grant to New Mexican citizens, 1842 --
Essays --
Gender, race, and culture in the history of the California frontier / Antonia I. Castañeda --
Spanish Texas and borderlands historiography / Gerald E. Poyo, Gilberto M. Hinojosa --
Further reading --
ch. 4. Early Mexicano life and society in the Southwest, 1821-1846 --
Documents --
1. Eulalia Pérez remembers early California, 1823 --
2. Captain Frederick W. Beechy describes the California missions, 1826 --
3. General Manuel Mier y Terán reports on the Texas-Coahuila Territory, 1828-1829 --
4. Eulalia Yorba gives and eyewitness account of the siege of the Alamo, 1836 --
5. Olibama López recalls pioneer life in Colorado\'s San Luis Valley in the early nineteenth century --
6. Joshua Gregg paints a picture of La Tules --
7. Ralph Emerson Twitchell offers an opinion on La Tules --
Essays --
Mythmaking and the Texas revolution / David J. Weber --
Creating the myth of the Alamo / Holly Beachley Brear --
La Tules of image and reality / Deena J. González --
Further reading. ch. 5. Mexican Americans after the Mexican War, 1848-1860 --
Documents --
1. The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes borders, 1848 --
2. Secretary of State James Buchanan reacts to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848 --
3. John Rollin Ridge reflects on the life of Joaquín Murieta, 1850 --
4. A California newspaper condemns violence against Mexicans, 1856 --
5. William W.H. Davis comments on the customs of the Spanish-speaking New Mexicans, 1857 --
6. John Hittell reviews Mexican land claims in California, 1857 --
7. Juan Cortina calls Texas Mexicans to armed resistance, 1859 --
Essays --
The origins of nativism in California / Leonard Pitt --
Anglo American stereotypes of Californianas / Antonia I. Castañeda --
Life for Mexicans in Texas after the 1836 Revolution / Arnoldo De León --
Further reading --
ch. 6. Conflict and community among Mexican Americans in the Southwest, late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries --
Documents --
1. Mexico\'s Investigative Commission reports on violence and theft along the Texas-Mexico border, 1873 --
2. Miguel Antonio Otero remembers New Mexico, 1880 --
3. Las Gorras Blancas announce their platform, 1890 --
4. The Californio \"first families\" are recalled, 1891 --
5. Gregorio Cortez is immortalized in song, 1901 --
Essays --
The unmarried women of Santa Fe, 1850-1880 / Deena J. González --
Chicano/a frontier and regional communities in the Southwest / Sarah Deutsch --
Further reading --
ch. 7. Struggle and strife : social conditions of Mexican Americans, 1910-1917 --
Documents --
1. Victor S. Clark comments on changes in Mexican immigration to the United States, 1908 --
2. The Reverend Pedro Grado addresses El Congreso Mexicanista, 1911 --
3. Flores de Andrade recalls her revolutionary activity as an immigrant in El Paso, Texas, 1911 --
4. Samuel Bryan analyzes increases in Mexican immigrations, 1912 --
5. \"Los Sediciosos\" (The Seditionists) commemorates Mexican American resistance in South Texas, 1915 --
Essays --
Mexican immigrant women in El Paso, Texas / Mario T. García --
Mexican voluntary organizations of South Texas / Emilio Zamora --
Further reading --
ch. 8. The Mexican immigrant experience, 1917-1928 --
Documents --
1. The Reverend Robert N. McLean assesses Protestant religious work among the Mexicans, 1923 --
2. The Reverend Robert N. McLean reports on Colorado Mexicans, 1924 --
3. Anita Edgar Jones surveys Mexican life in Chicago, 1928 --
4. Ernesto Galarza defends Mexican Immigrants, 1929 --
5. Merton E. Hill outlines a program for Americanizing the Mexicans, 1931 --
6. Elisa Silva describes Mexican immigrant life in Los Angeles, 1920s --
Essays --
Mexican immigrants in the Midwest / Zaragosa Vargas --
The acculturation of young Mexican American women / Vicki L. Ruiz --
Further reading. ch. 9. Mexican Americans in the Great Depression, 1929-1941 --
Documents --
1. U.S. Commissioner General of Immigration reports on Mexican immigration, 1931 --
2. Carey McWilliams assails Mexican repatriation from California, 1933 --
3. Frank C. McDonald recounts events leading to mediation of the California Cotton Pickers Strike, 1933 --
4. Elsie Chavez Chilton recalls relatives working with the Civilian Conservation Corps near Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1930s --
5. Susana Archuleta looks back at jobs with the Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Youth Administration in Northern New Mexico, 1930s --
6. Bert Corona remembers the Civil Works Administration camps in El Paso, Texas, 1934 --
7. Philip Stevenson describes the deportation of Jesús Pallares, 1936 --
8. Emma Tenayuca reminisces about labor organizing in San Antonio, Texas, 1936-1938 --
Essays --
Oral history and Mexicana farmworkers / Devra Anne Weber --
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Northern New Mexico / María E. Montoya --
Further reading --
ch. 10. Mexican Americans and World War II, 1941-1945 --
Documents --
1. Raúl Morín discusses Mexican Americans in military service, 1942 --
2. The coordinator on Inter-American Affairs applauds the Mexican American war effort, 1943 --
3. Los Angeles Times appeals for an end to the Zoot Suit Wars, 1943 --
4. The Citizens\' Committee for the Defense of Mexican American Youth reports on the Sleepy Lagoon Case, 1943 --
5. Beatrice Morales Clifton recalls her experience at a California Lockheed Airplane factory, 1944 --
6. Carlos E. Castañeda testifies on job discrimination against Mexican Americans in war defense industries, 1945 --
Essays --
An interpretation of the causes of the Zoot Suit Wars / Stuart Cosgrove --
The contributions of Mexican American women workers in the Midwest to the war effort / Richard A. Santillán --
Further reading --
ch. 11. Mexican Americans in the Cold War years, 1945-1960 --
Documents --
1. Méndez et al. v. Westminister School District addresses school segregation, 1946 --
2. Isabel González offers a dismal report on Mexican Americans, 1947 --
3. Beatrice W. Griffith analyzes Eduardo Roybal\'s election to the Los Angeles City Council, 1949 --
4. Hart Stilwell warns of the problem of undocumented Mexican immigration, 1949 --
5. The American G.I. Forum and the Texas State Federation of Labor condemn undocumented Mexican immigration, 1953 --
Essays --
The Asociación Nacional México-Americans (ANMA) / Mario T. García --
The U.S. Government\'s unofficial role in the Bracero Program / Kitty Calavita --
Further reading. ch. 12. The struggle for Chicano power, 1965-1974 --
Documents --
1. María Moreno remembers farmworker life, 1965 --
2. Ernest Vigil opposes induction to fight in Vietnam, 1968 --
3. Reies Lopez Tijerina writes an open letter from Santa Fe jail, 1969 --
4. The Chicano Coordinating Council on Higher Education discusses the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MECHA), 1969 --
5. Armando Rendon recalls the Winter Garden Project of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO), 1969 --
6. César Chávez speaks with Bob Fitch about La Causa, 1970 --
7. Lea Ybarra and Nina Genera report on Chicano mobilization against the Vietnam War, 1972 --
Essays --
The Mexican American Youth Organization / Armando Navarro --
The significant role of Chicanas in the United Farm Workers\' boycott / Margaret Rosa --
Further reading --
ch. 13. The gaining of power : Chicano political empowerment, 1964-1980 --
Documents --
1. Grape workers issue the Boycott Day Proclamation, 1969 --
2. José Angel Gutiérrez calls for political action, 1970 --
3. La Raza Unida Convention announces its priorities, 1972 --
4. Dolores Huerta recalls Democratic and Republican response to the farmworker issue, 1972 --
5. Vilma S. Martínez testifies before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights about the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) --
6. Juan Vásquez discusses Willie Velásquez and the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP) --
Essays --
The 1972 campaign of Ramsey Muñiz for governor of Texas / Ignacio M. García --
Gaining the Mexican American vote in the 1982 Presidential elections / Tony Castro --
Further reading --
ch. 14. The Chicano experience in contemporary America --
Documents --
1. Frank del Olmo characterizes Southern California\'s Latinos as \"a people living on the bridge between two worlds,\" 1983 --
2. Lety Martínez González writes about life as an undocumented Mexican in California, 1990 --
3. Marta López-Garza chronicles the Chicano quest for power in Los Angeles, 1992 --
4. Nina Schuyler reports on the mothers of East Los Angeles and their struggle for their community, 1992 --
5. George Ramos and Tracy Wilkinson analyze the Los Angeles Riots, 1992 --
6. Rubén Martínez describes the fight against Proposition 187, 1995 --
7. Frank del Olmo explains what Latinos have to lose by Proposition 209, 1996 --
Essays --
Mexican American women\'s activism in East Los Angeles / Mary S. Prado --
The struggle for control of Los Angeles government / Rodolfo F. Acuña --
Latina liberation / Elizabeth Martínez --
Further reading.