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Border Crossings: Mexican and Mexican-American Workers (Latin American Silhouettes)

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The history of Mexican and Mexican-American working classes has been segregated by the political boundary that separates the USA of The us from the USA of Mexico. Because of this, scholars have long ignored the social, cultural, and political threads that the two groups hold in common. Further, they have got seldom addressed the have an effect on of American values and organizations on the working class of that country.

Compiled by probably the most leading North American experts on the Mexican Revolution, the essays in Border Crossings: Mexican and Mexican-American Workers explore the historical process at the back of the formation of the Mexican and Mexican- American working classes. The volume connects the history of their experiences from the cultural beginnings and the upward push of industrialism in Mexico to the late twentieth century in the us

Border Crossings notes the similar social experiences and strategies of Mexican workers in both countries, community formation and community organizations, their mutual aid efforts, the movements of people between Mexico and Mexican-American communities, the roles of women, and the formation of political groups. In any case, Border Crossings addresses the special conditions of Mexicans in the USA, including the creation of a Mexican-American middle class, the have an effect on of American racism on Mexican communities, and the nature and evolution of border towns and the borderlands.

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