Memory, Community, and Activism: Mexican Migration and Labor in the Pacific Northwest

by Gilberto Garcia

Book Overview

Memory, Community, and Activism is the first book-length study to critically examine the Mexican experience in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Many books deal with Chicano history, but few ever attempt to interpret or analyze it beyond the confines of the American Southwest. Eleven essays by leading scholars on the Mexican experience in the Northwest shed new light on immigration/migration, the Bracero program, the Catholic Church, race and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870137700
• ISBN13: 9780870137709
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Julian Samora Research Institute
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"