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| North From Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of the United States; New Edition, Updated by Matt S. Meier (Contributions in American History, No 140) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Carey Mcwilliams, Matt S. Meier
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 102835
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Upd Sub
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 372
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 0275932249
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.0046872
EAN: 9780275932244
ASIN: 0275932249
Publication Date: March 9, 1990
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Product Description
McWilliams' North From Mexico, first published in 1949, provides a comprehensive general history of the Mexican experience in the United States. Now fully updated by Matt S. Meier to cover the period 1945 through 1988, North From Mexico explores all aspects of the Chicano experience in the United States including family, employment, education, assimilation, political, cultural, and economic issues. Widely used in college courses on Chicano and Southwestern U.S. history and culture, the volume provides a comprehensive general history of the Chicano experience in the United States, beginning with the early aboriginal inhabitants and covering to the present.
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 A mixture of LA noir and frontier history October 9, 2001
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I really take issue with the dismissive review of the reader from Washington, I think they missed the point. This book was written in the late 40's as a response to the Zootsuit murders which brought to the attention of the American people the marginalized situation of Chicano people. McWilliams pieced together the little that was known about the history of the settlement of the southwest by Spanish subjects who were mainly people of mixed descent in order to establish that these people were not "immigrants" but rather more native to the land than the Anglo population. The mixture of history, sociology, and news was ahead of its time, making it accessible to people from different backgrounds. I think it was a wonderful example of the gritty style of American writers that has been lost in our times where passion has no place in the public sphere.
New Mexico Native's Review March 13, 2001
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I first read McWilliams book in the 1960s. It put into persepective the contribution of my heritage and explained how my family's origins differed from the expanse of "Hispanics" that came later to populate various aspects of the United States.McWilliams understood the contribution and the resulting plight early on, before the Civil Rights movement, before Ceasar Chavez. McWillaims did us all a favor by not becoming the outside spokesman for what developed as a cause that he understood and elequently outlined in history and in ethic.
 Not very well researched September 30, 1999
0 out of 11 found this review helpful
I don't think this book is quite sound. I would highly recommend Professor Ralph H. Vigil's book "Spain and Plains;Myths and Realities of Spanish Exploration and Settlement on the Great Plains"
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