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Occupied America : a history of Chicanos /

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"The first edition of Occupied America followed the current of the times, adopting the internal colonial model that was popular during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Since then, just like the Chicano movement itself, I have undergone dramatic changes. This version of Occupied America reflects...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Acuña, Rodolfo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, [1981]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:DPL Latin American Research and Service Agency (LARASA) collection
Subjects:
Mexican Americans > History.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Histoire.
Mexican Americans.
United States > History.
Chicanos
Kolonisation > Amerika
Mexikaner > USA > Geschichte
Spanisch-Amerikaner > Geschichte
Chicanos.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Conquest and Colonization: An Overview
  • Legacy of Hate: The Conquest of the Southwest
  • Background to the Invasion of Texas
  • The Invasion of Texas
  • The Invasion of Mexico
  • The Rationale for Conquest
  • The Myth of a Nonviolent Nation
  • The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • Conclusion
  • Remember the Alamo: The Colonization of Texas
  • The Apologists and the Texas Rangers
  • The Texas Robber Barons
  • The Revolt of "Cheno" Cortina
  • The People's Revolt
  • The New Social Structure
  • Freedom in a Cage: The Expansion into New Mexico
  • The Myth of the Bloodless Conquest
  • The Land Grab in New Mexico
  • The Americanization of the Catholic Church
  • The Sante Fe Ring
  • The Lincoln County War
  • The Resistance
  • Conclusion
  • Sonora Invaded: The Occupation of Arizona
  • The Drive on Sonora
  • The Polarization of Society
  • The Quest for Labor
  • Resistance Through the Labor Movement
  • California Lost: America for Anglo-Americans
  • The Occupation of California
  • The Changing Elites
  • Violence in Occupied California
  • Currents of Resistance
  • The Frozen Society of California
  • -- A Radical View of the Twentieth-Century Chicano
  • "Greasers Go Home"
  • Background of the Migration North of the Rio Bravo
  • Nativist Reaction to Mexican Migration
  • The Restrictionist Movement of the 1920s
  • The Nativist Fever of the 1930s
  • The Deportation of the Chicano
  • Human Rights for Whom?
  • The Pharaohs Rent Their Braceros
  • The Scapegoats: The Mexicans Are Coming
  • Operation Wetback
  • Magnetizing the Border
  • Human Rights--An American Fiction
  • A Solution to the Problem
  • Mexican Labor in the United States
  • The Roots of Mexican Labor: Background and Collective Action
  • Precursors to the Chicano Labor Movement
  • The Beginnings of the Mexican Labor Movement in the United States
  • Stabilization of the Mexican Worker Population
  • The Expansion of Agriculture and the Dispersal of Mexican Workers
  • Politicization of Chicano Labor
  • Conditions in California
  • Factors Affecting Chicano Labor
  • Conditions in Texas and the Midwest
  • Strikes and Organizations
  • Agricultural Organizing Continues: CUCOM and UCAPAWA
  • Chicano Factory Workers
  • The Chicano Labor Struggle Continues: Major Organizational Efforts
  • The National Farm Labor Union
  • The Texas Garment Workers' Strikes
  • General Work Conditions for Chicano Labor
  • Factors Reinforcing the Unchanging Status
  • The Road to Delano: The Farm Labor Struggle Continues
  • César Chávez and the United Farm Workers
  • Other Delanos in the Midwest
  • Issues Confronting the Chicano Worker in the 1970s
  • The Texas Farm Worker Movement
  • The Spread of Strike Activity
  • The Farah Strike
  • Conclusion
  • -- Forging a Community: Repression and Resistance
  • The Long Border Fosters Nationalism
  • Politics of Accommodation
  • Early Mexican Resistance in the United States
  • The "Brown Scare" and Chicano Resistance
  • Accommodation and Nationalism
  • The Struggle to Achieve Equal Education
  • Social Conditions in Los Angeles in the 1920s
  • Mexican Nationalism in the Midwest in the 1920s
  • Second Generation Resistance
  • Fighting for Whose Democracy?
  • The New Activism: Political Activism at the Grass-Roots Level
  • Optimists in a Sea of Apathy
  • Good-bye America: The Chicano in Limbo
  • Chicanos Test the Political Process
  • National Programs Raise Expectations
  • New Nationalism--The Youth Movement
  • The New Leaders
  • José Angel Gutiérrez
  • Reies López Tijerina
  • Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales
  • Católicos Por La Raza
  • Major Demonstrations
  • The Chicano National Moratorium
  • The Siege Continues
  • Police Solution to Unrest
  • Justice in the Southwest
  • Conclusion
  • Born Again Democrats: The Age of the Brokers
  • The Agents of Social Control
  • The Creation of a Chicano Quebec
  • Chicano Studies: A Legacy from History
  • Bilingual Education
  • Chicano Politics of the 1970s: Born Again Democrats
  • The Barrios
  • Growing Awareness of the Chicanas' Struggle
  • The Catholic Church: The Theology of Collective Salvation
  • Chicanos in the Midwest
  • Human Rights, 1970s
  • Reverse Discrimination: An Anglo-American Illusion
  • Conclusion.