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Debating American identity Southwestern statehood and Mexican immigration
Author
Title
Debating American identity [electronic resource] : Southwestern statehood and Mexican immigration / Linda C. Noel.
ISBN
0816598932
9780816598939
0816530459
9780816530458 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Published
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2014. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
"Debating American Identity is an innovative look at four national debates over the inclusion of the Mexican-origin population in the United States in the early twentieth century. Linda C. Noel explores different conceptions of American identity through disputes over Arizona and New Mexico statehood, temporary workers, immigration, and repatriation"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 American Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 US Regional Studies, West.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 12, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Note on terminology
Part I. The late territorial years, 1898-1912
The closed door : exclusion reigns
The door swings inward : pluralism and marginalization
Part II. Transformations : the First World War era, 1917-1922
Changing strategies for a new world
Marginalization evolves : image of a temporary worker
Part III. Immigration restriction debates, 1926-1930
Closing the door?
Promotion of the temporary worker
Part IV. Repatriation, 1930-1935
"To keep America American" : the door swings outward.
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