Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930

by Gilbert G. González

Book Overview

A history of the Chicano community cannot be complete without taking into account the United States' domination of the Mexican economy beginning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writes Gilbert G. Gonz lez. For that economic conquest inspired U.S. writers to create a "culture of empire" that legitimated American dominance by portraying Mexicans and Mexican immigrants as childlike "peons" in need of foreign tutelage, incapable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292702078
• ISBN13: 9780292702073
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"