Testimonio: A Documentary History of the Mexican-American Struggle for Civil Rights

Portada
Francisco Arturo Rosales
Arte Publico Press, 2000 M08 31 - 448 páginas
New from the author of the best-selling Chicano! comes a major overview of crucial historical documents in the Mexican-American pursuit of life, liberty, and justice in the United States. Beginning with the early 1800s and extending his survey up to the modern era, Rosales has pursued and meticulously put in order a wealth of essential, illuminating papers such as petitions, correspondence (both personal and official), government reports, political proclamations, newspaper items (both news articles and editorials), first-hand accounts, manifestos, congressional testimony, memoirs, and even international treaties. Rosales proceeds chronologically in a commanding and thorough examination of such topics as Mexicans in the nineteenth-century Southwest; the internal, and international, effects of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the regimes that followed; massive immigration during the 1920s; the establishment of a M?xico de afuera by nostalgic exiles; the mobilizing of Mexican Americans in civil-rights groups to combat discrimination, particularly following World War II; workplace and labor groups such as the United Farm Workers; and the rise of militant groups and movements such as the Brown Berets, the Raza Unida political party, and the Chicano Moratorium. Each chapter begins with an extended introduction, in which Rosales carefully sets the scene and establishes the context in which these records were produced. In addition, each individual item is given its own particular preface, and Rosales has also carefully documented his sources for further exploration. All sides_from the fervently militant to the accommodating to the rabidly xenophobic_are heard from; and the voices Rosales has selected range from the famous and powerful to the wholly obscure. In Testimonio, Arturo Rosales has produced a touchstone volume, a definitive work for reference and study that scholars and students will soon find indispensable.

Dentro del libro

Páginas seleccionadas

Contenido

II
1
III
8
IV
10
V
16
VI
20
VII
22
VIII
23
IX
26
LXXXII
192
LXXXIII
194
LXXXIV
205
LXXXV
207
LXXXVI
211
LXXXVII
212
LXXXVIII
214
LXXXIX
216

X
28
XI
29
XII
31
XIII
33
XIV
37
XV
39
XVI
42
XVII
47
XVIII
51
XIX
52
XX
55
XXI
61
XXII
63
XXIII
66
XXIV
68
XXV
71
XXVI
73
XXVII
74
XXVIII
76
XXIX
82
XXX
84
XXXI
86
XXXII
88
XXXIII
90
XXXIV
91
XXXV
93
XXXVI
96
XXXVII
98
XXXVIII
100
XXXIX
101
XL
102
XLI
103
XLII
107
XLIII
108
XLIV
111
XLV
114
XLVI
116
XLVII
118
XLVIII
120
XLIX
122
L
123
LI
126
LII
128
LIII
130
LIV
132
LV
134
LVI
139
LVII
141
LVIII
142
LIX
144
LX
146
LXI
149
LXII
151
LXIII
153
LXIV
155
LXV
156
LXVI
157
LXVII
164
LXVIII
165
LXIX
167
LXX
168
LXXI
170
LXXII
172
LXXIII
173
LXXIV
174
LXXV
176
LXXVI
178
LXXVII
180
LXXVIII
181
LXXIX
183
LXXX
185
LXXXI
187
XC
223
XCI
224
XCII
226
XCIII
228
XCIV
230
XCV
231
XCVI
232
XCVII
233
XCVIII
236
XCIX
237
C
238
CI
239
CII
241
CIII
243
CIV
246
CV
247
CVI
249
CVII
258
CVIII
259
CIX
262
CX
264
CXI
266
CXII
267
CXIII
269
CXIV
276
CXV
282
CXVI
285
CXVII
293
CXIX
295
CXX
296
CXXI
298
CXXIII
300
CXXIV
302
CXXV
303
CXXVI
305
CXXVII
306
CXXVIII
308
CXXIX
321
CXXX
322
CXXXI
325
CXXXII
327
CXXXIII
328
CXXXIV
339
CXXXV
348
CXXXVI
350
CXXXVII
352
CXXXVIII
353
CXXXIX
355
CXL
360
CXLI
361
CXLII
364
CXLIII
370
CXLIV
372
CXLV
374
CXLVI
375
CXLVII
377
CXLVIII
379
CXLIX
381
CL
383
CLI
385
CLII
386
CLIII
387
CLIV
389
CLV
391
CLVI
394
CLVII
400
CLVIII
404
CLIX
407
CLX
413
CLXI
425
Derechos de autor

Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 12 - Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories may either retain the title and rights of Mexican citizens, or acquire those of citizens of the United States. But they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty; and those who shall remain in the said territories after the expiration of that year, without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans, shall be considered to have elected...
Página 11 - ... said line nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same;) thence down the middle of the said branch and of the said river, until it empties into the Rio Colorado ; thence across the Rio Colorado, following the division line between Upper and Lower California, to the Pacific Ocean. The southern and western limits of New Mexico, mentioned in this article, are those laid down in the map entitled " Map of the United Mexican States...
Página 198 - ... the education of the people in schools maintained by state taxation is a matter belonging to the respective states, and any interference on the part of Federal authority with the management of such schools cannot be justified except in the case of a clear and unmistakable disregard of rights secured by the supreme law of the land.
Página 10 - ... have for that purpose appointed their respective plenipotentiaries, that is to say: The President of the United States has appointed Nicholas P.
Página 11 - ... the southern boundary of New Mexico; thence westwardly along the whole southern boundary of New Mexico (which runs north of the town called Paso) to its western termination; thence northward along the western line of New Mexico until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila (or if it should not intersect any branch of that river, then to the point on the said line nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same) ; thence down the middle of the said branch and of the said...
Página 12 - Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, and which remain for the future within the limits of the United States, as defined by the present treaty, shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican republic, retaining the property which they possess in the said territories, or disposing thereof, and removing the proceeds wherever they please, without their being subjected, on this account, to any contribution, tax, or charge whatever.
Página 11 - California, it is agreed that the said limit shall consist of a straight line drawn from the middle of the Rio Gila, where it unites with the Colorado, to a point on the coast of the Pacific Ocean distant one marine league due south of the southernmost point of the port of San Diego...
Página 11 - Republics, as described in the present article, the two governments shall each appoint a commissioner and a surveyor, who, before the expiration of one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, shall meet at the port of San Diego, and proceed to run and mark the said boundary in its whole course to the mouth of the Rio Bravo del Norte.
Página 11 - Republics shall commence in the Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of it's deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea ; from thence, up the middle of that river...
Página 17 - The vessels and citizens of the United States shall, in all time, have a free and uninterrupted passage by the gulf of California, and by the river Colorado below its confluence with the Gila, to and from their possessions situated north of the boundary line...

Acerca del autor (2000)

F. ARTURO ROSALES is the author of Chicano! The History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement (an acclaimed PBS television series), Hispanics and the Humanities in the Southwest and Pobre Raza: Violence, Justice, and Mobilization Among Mexico Lindo Immigrants. He is Professor of History at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Información bibliográfica