Contents

• 1. Background
• Geography
• Early Civilizations
• Spanish Conquest
• Spanish Culture in the New World
• Mexican Independence
• The U.S.-Mexico War of 1845
• Mexico under Benito Juarez
• 2. The Mexican Revolution and Immigration
• Mexico under Diaz (1876-1911)
• The Mexican Revolution of 1910
• Immigration to the United States
• Immigrant Culture
• 3. Continued Immigration, World Wars, and Aftermath
• Continued Immigration and Labor Unrest (1920-1940)
• World War II and the Bracero Program
• The Impact of Mexican Immigration
• 4. The Immigration Act of 1965 and Other Acts
• Operation Wetback
• The McCarran-Walter Act of 1952
• Mexico’s Economic Crisis and Increased Mexican Immigration
• The Hart-Cellar Immigration Act of 1965
• Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
• Consequences for Mexican Immigrant Communities
• 5. A Demographic Profile of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
• Population Size and Composition
• Age and Family Structure
• Educational Attainment
• Poverty
• Occupation and Income
• Mexican Immigrant Business Owners
• 6. Family, Culture, and Life Cycle Rituals
• The Family
• Religious Life Cycle Rituals
• Birth and Baptism Rituals
• La Quinceanera: The Mexican Debutante
• Marriage Rituals
• Funeral Rituals
• 7. Retaining Mexican Culture and Identity
• Living "Mexican" in the United States
• The Mexican Government and Mexican Immigrants
• Language
• Spanish- Language Newspapers
• Television and Mexican Immigrant Communities
• The Catholic Church and Mexican Immigrants
• Religious Practices
• Music
• 8. Families and Changing Gender Relations
• Understanding Mexican Immigrant Familism
• Machismo and Gender Roles
• Immigration and Changes in Gender Roles
• Other Patterns of Egalitarianism within Mexican Families
• Feminism among Mexican and Mexican-American Women
• 9. Paths toward Citizenship
• Citizenship in Historical Context
• Naturalization Policies
• Becoming American Citizens
• California’s Proposition 187
• Dual Citizenship
• 10. Forging a New American Political Identity
• Patterns of English Language Acquisition and Usage
• The Development of Political Associations and Organizations
• League of United Latin American Citizens
• Politics of Social Protest
• Electoral Politics
• Public Policies and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
• Electoral Politics and Mexican-American Voters
• 11. Children of Immigrants: The Second Generation
• Ethnic Identities
• Educational Attainment Levels of Second-Generation Mexican Americans - - A Nation in Transition
• The Latino Wave in American Culture
• 12. The Future of U.S.-Mexico Relations
• Mexico’s Border Problems
• Return Migration from the United States to Mexico
• Mexican Presidential Politics and Mexican Immigrants
• 13. Toward a Twenty-first Century of Diversity: The New American Society
• The Twenty-first Century and the U.S. Population
• Future Social Policy Implications
• Immigrant Identity: Old Ties and New Allegiances
• From Melting Pot to Mosaic
• App. Notable Mexicans and Mexican Americans