THE CITIZENSHIP SACRIFICE: MEXICAN AMERICANS, THE SAUNDERS-LEONARD REPORT, AND THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION, 1951-1952.
One fascinating aspect of Mexican American history is the community's tangled relationship with immigration. In the mid-twentieth century, the "Mexican American Generation" adopted restrictionism in pursuit of U. S. civic equality and economic justice. This essay examines the controversy of this pos...
| Publicado en: | Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 299 - 321 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Autumn2009
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| Sumario: | One fascinating aspect of Mexican American history is the community's tangled relationship with immigration. In the mid-twentieth century, the "Mexican American Generation" adopted restrictionism in pursuit of U. S. civic equality and economic justice. This essay examines the controversy of this position as illustrated by the response to an academic study of undocumented labor in the early 1950s. |
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