Mexican voices / American dreams an oral history of Mexican immigration to the United States
Marilyn P. Davis
- New York Henry Holt and Company 1990
- 446 p
Includes index.
Part I. Push-pull -- Ballad of the immigrant: the long history of Mexican migration -- I will buy you the moon: the reasons for going -- Two dollars an hour: the employees -- Part II. Passage -- To cross is to die a little: crossing the border -- The white man and the chicken keeper win: El Coyote -- How they have suffered for me: those they left behind -- Part III. El Norte -- Breathless: dreams versus reality -- Those who come to immigrate: life in the United States -- Up with the raza: the best and the brightest -- Part IV. The future -- When you sing there are no borders: the artists -- Those they call chicano: the children, part I ; the children's children, part II -- El Corrido Nuevo: a new verse.
Oral histories of Mexican American immigrants, "their families, friends, employers, and descendants."
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Mexican Americans --20th century Emigration and immigration --United States Immigrants --United States--20th century Oral history