"An imponant book .... [which] provides the first detailed analysis of the changes that transformed one of the most important Mexican pueblos in the Southwest into a Chicano urban barrio. Using quantitative data together with traditional secondary and primary historical sources, the author traces the major socio-economic, political, and racial factors that evolved during the post-Mexican War decades and that created a subordinate status for Mexican Americans in a burgeoning American city."--Western Historical Quarterly "Griswold del Castillo's history of the Mexican community during the first decades of the 'American era' . . . concentrates on the mechanisms which the community adopted as it was confronted by changes in the economic structure of the region, the in-migration of Anglo-Americans as well as Mexicans, and by the effects of racial segregation on the community. [The] aim is to reveal the history of a community undergoing rapid social and economic change, not to write the history of one society's domination of another."--UCLA Historical Journal "Los Angeles Chicanos emerge not as the homogeneous, passive victims of stereotypical fame, but as internally diverse, active participants in the simultaneous struggles to maintain their socio-cultural fabric and to capture a part of the American Dream. The author effectively demonstrates that the Chicano decline occurred not because of cultural weaknesses but as the almost inevitable resu lt of Anglo prejudice, numerical domination, and control of political and economic institutions. . . . an admirable book and a fine piece of scholarship.''--American Historical Review

The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890: A Social History

History

Castillo, Richard Griswold Del

Americas

University of California Press

Book by Castillo, Richard Griswold Del, De Leon, Arnoldo, Del Castillo, Richard Griswold, Griswold Del Castillo, Richard, Leon, Arnoldo De

North to Aztlan: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States (Twayne's Immigrant Heritage of America Series)

De León, Arnoldo

León, Arnoldo De

Del Castillo, Richard Griswold

Twayne Pub

Griswold Del Castillo, Richard, Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo, The: A Legacy Of Conflict

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. A Legacy of Conflict.

Univ. Oklahoma Press (1990)

When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the U.S.–Mexican War in 1848, vast territories were officially within the borders of the United States. This bilingual volume, with all text printed in both English and Spanish, accompanies a major special exhibition at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage and presents an overview of how that major shift of both border and culture has continued to affect the people of the United States and Mexico for 150 years. Iris Engstrand, a professor of history at the University of San Diego, sets the historical stage for the war. She describes the first encounters between Spain and the New World and discusses the impact of colonialism on indigenous peoples, up to the twentieth century, when U.S. troops commanded by General John Pershing entered Mexico during the 1916 Revolution. The plight of peoples in border regions and especially of the many people who suddenly became “Mexican Americans” in 1848 is addressed along with the emergence of other transnational populations in the region. In the second essay, Richard Griswold del Castillo, a professor of Mexican American studies at San Diego State University, connects provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to present-day issues in the American Southwest, including Texas and California. Included in his discussion is a view of how the war and its aftermath were critical elements in the creation of a new ethnic identity—Mexican Americans. The book includes reproductions of thirty-two paintings contemporaneous with the war period as well as other illustrations. As an overview for the general public rather than an in-depth study for scholars, Culture y Cultura also includes a list of suggested readings that would be ideal for students.

Culture y Cultura: Consequences of the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848

Engstrand, Iris

Autry Museum

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