Traces the changes in the Chicano perception of the Southwest, focusing on the 135 years since the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and discussing the desire to ...

This sweeping and original synthesis reinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective. The region included today in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico ...

Analyzes the complicated political and social forces that have shaped U.S. immigration policies and examines how the American melting pot philosophy coexists with tendencies ...

As the twenty-first century begins, Latina/os represent 45 percent of the residents of Los Angeles County, making them the largest recial/ethnic group in the region. At the ...

This first-ever dictionary of important issues in the U.S. Latino struggle for civil rights defines a wide-ranging list of key terms.