North to Aztlan 2e

by Arnoldo de León, Richard Griswold del Castillo, Del Castillo Richar Griswold

Book Overview

Contemporary observers often quip that the American Southwest has become "Mexicanized," but this view ignores the history of the region as well as the social reality. Mexican people and their culture have been continuously present in the territory for the past four hundred years, and Mexican Americans were actors in United States history long before the national media began to focus on them--even long before an international border existed between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882952439
• ISBN13: 9780882952437
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Interesting & worth reading!

This book is worth reading and has a lot of interesting information like most of Del Castillo's works! Unfortunately, we can't rely on our U.S. history books to teach us all American history since they only teach from when Europeans arrived here. This is why we need books like this, since some of us appreciate the indigenous history of where we live. If you're Chicano, you should definitely check it out!