They Came to Toil : : Newspaper Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression / / Melita M. Garza.
As the Great Depression gripped the United States in the early 1930s, the Hoover administration sought to preserve jobs for Anglo-Americans by targeting Mexicans, including long-time residents and even US citizens, for deportation. Mexicans comprised more than 46 percent of all people deported betwe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures, Illustrations, and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Crisis: They Came to Toil . . . but They Could Not Stay
- Chapter 1 1929 To Pave a Way through Hostile and Barren Lands
- Chapter 2 1930 A Thousand Times Better Off with Mexican Labor
- Chapter 3 1931 The Tragedy of the Repatriated
- Chapter 4 1932–1933 A New Deal for American Pioneers
- Chapter 5 Conclusion and Epilogue
- Appendix By the Numbers La Prensa, the Express, and the Light Circulation, 1929–1934
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index