The Tejano Diaspora: Mexican Americanism & Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin

by Marc Rodriguez and Marc Simon Rodriguez

Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they traveled to for work, influencing concepts of Mexican Americanism in Texas, California, Wisconsin, Michigan, and elsewhere. In The Tejano Diaspora,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807834645
• ISBN13: 9780807834640
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"