San Antonio College Library

Written on the eve of the Mexican Revolution, this text acknowledges the dual parentage of the Mexican people as children of Moctezuma and Cortés. Doing so, the author is able to view Mexico's history as an evolutionary process by which the Mexican people are formed in both the indigenous past and the colonial past, born with the arrival of Independence, and come of age when the Reform, the Republic, and the nation achieve a single identity.

"This new volume from Armando Navarro is a comprehensive political history of the Mexicano experience in the United States. Viewing Mexicanos today as an occupied and colonized people, Navarro calls for the formation of a new movement to reinvigorate the struggle for resistance and change. He envisions a new political and cultural landscape in which a dominant Latino population "re-Mexicanizes" the United States into a more multicultural and multiethnic...

The Great Divide is an in-depth examination of the longest boundary dividing the industrialized from the developing world: the almost two-thousand-mile border between Mexico and the United States. Relations between these countries have always been volatile, characterized by prejudice, imperialism, and violence, and only recently by cooperation and mutual dependence. This precarious harmony is further threatened by the North American Free Trade Agreement,...

"Papers ... first presented at a conference in April 1975 in San Antonio. "I. The culture of the border. The cultural roots of the border : and archaeologists view / Ignacio Bernal -- The borderlands : ideas on a leafless landscape / Joe B. Frantz -- The culture of the frontier : the Mexican side / Carlos Monsiváis -- The problem of identity in a changing culture : popular expressions of culture conflict along the lower Río Grande border / Américo...

Offers a look at how Canada, the United States, and Mexico have diverged politically and culturally despite their shared roots and similar backgrounds.

This book was written for all levels of readers interested in immigration issues, from general to expert. It provides a current, well-informed, and solidly grounded Mexican perspective on Mexican immigration to the U.S. Topics addressed include the current generation of immigrants, why they have chosen to move to the U.S., where they work, their ultimate goals, and possible ways to address the multiple concerns about the continuing immigration of...

"There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Wall or no wall, deeply intertwined social, economic, business, cultural, and personal relationships mean the US-Mexico border is more like a seam than a barrier, weaving together two economies and cultures. Mexico faces huge crime and corruption problems, but its remarkable transformation over the past two decades has...