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Francisco E. Balderrama

Decade of Betrayal

Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s, Revised Edition

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During the Great Depression, a sense of total despair plagued the United States. Americans sought a convenient scapegoat and found it in the Mexican community. Laws forbidding employment of Mexicans were accompanied by the hue and cry to get rid of the Mexicans! The hysteria led pandemic repatriation drives and one million Mexicans and their children were illegally shipped to Mexico.Despite their horrific treatment and traumatic experiences, the American born children never gave up hope of returning to the United States. Upon attaining legal age, they badgered their parents to let them return home. Repatriation survivors who came back worked… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Rodríguez, Raymond
  • ISBN: 978-0-8263-3974-4
  • EAN: 9780826339744
  • Produktnummer: 34255857
  • Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
  • Seitenangabe: 440 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'569 KB

Über den Autor


Francisco E. Balderrama is professor of American history and Chicano studies at California State University, Los Angeles.

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