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Title Mongrels, bastards, orphans, and vagabonds : Mexican immigration and the future of race in America / Gregory Rodriguez.
Author Rodriguez, Gregory.
Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, c2007.
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Copies/Volumes
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvii, 317 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-304) and index.
Contents The birth of a people -- The rise and fall of the Spanish colonial racial system -- The Spaniards venture North -- Mexicans and the limits of slavery -- The Anglos move West -- Caught between North and South -- Becoming Mexican American -- The Chicano movement -- Mongrel America and the new assimilation.
Subject Mexican Americans -- History.
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Chicano movement.
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
ISBN 9780375421587 : $26.95
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