Mongrels, bastards, orphans, and vagabonds : Mexican immigration and the future of race in America / Gregory Rodriguez.

Author: Rodriguez, Gregory.

Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 2007.

ISBN: 9780375421587
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Description: xvii,317 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject: Mexican Americans History.
Mexican Americans Ethnic identity.
Chicano movement.
Mexico Emigration and immigration History.
United States Emigration and immigration History.

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 American and the new assimilation.