Border Crossings: Mexican And Mexican-American Workers; Author: Hart, John M.; Hardback; Book

Author: Hart, John M.
Latin American Silhouettes (Hardcover); Hardback; Book; Index
256 pages
Published: July 1998
Scholarly Resources
ISBN: 0842027165

The history of Mexican and Mexican-American working classes has been segregated by the political boundary that separates the United States of America from the United States of Mexico. As a result, the social, cultural, and political threads that the two groups hold in common have long been ignored. Compiled by John Mason Hart, one of the leading North American experts on the Mexican Revolution, Border Crossings: Mexican and Mexican-American Workers explores the historical process behind the formation of the Mexican and Mexican-American working classes. This volume addresses the special conditions of Mexicans in the United States, including the creation of a Mexican-American middle class, the impact of American racism on Mexican communities, and the nature and evolution of borderThe essays in this volume explore the historical process behind the formation of the Mexican and Mexican-American working classes. It connects the history of their experiences from the cultural beginnings and the rise of industrialism in Mexico to the late 20th-century in the United States.