Introduction
I. Genesis of a People: Before 1848
1. Antonia I. Castaneda, Presidarias y Pobladoras: The Journey North and Life in Frontier California.
2. Ramon A. Gutierrez, Honor Ideology, Marriage Negotiation, and Class-Gender Domination in New Mexico, 1690-1846.
3. David A. Sandoval, Gnats, Goods, and Greasers: Mexican Merchants on the Santa Fe Trail.
4. Federico A. Sanchez, Rancho Life in Alta California.
5. Jesus F. de la Teja, Discovering the Tejano Community in Early Texas.
6. Raymund A. Paredes, The Origins of Anti-Mexican Sentiment in the United States.
II. Gringos versus Greasers: 1848-1900
7. Arnoldo De Leon, In Re Ricardo Rodriguez: An Attempt at Chicano Disfranchisement in San Antonio, 1896-1897.
8. Armando C. Alonzo, Mexican-American Land Grant Adjudication.
9. Antonio Rios-Bustamante, The Barrioization of Nineteenth-Century Mexican Californians: From Landowners to Laborers.
10. Richard Griswold del Castillo, Tucsonenses and Angelenos: A Socio-Economic Study of Two Mexican-American Barrios, 1860-1880.
11. Alberto L. Pulido, Mexican American Catholicism in the Southwest: The Transformation of a Popular Religion.
12. Manuel G. Gonzales, Carlos I. Velasco and the Defense of Mexican Rights in Territorial Arizona.
III. The Great Migration: 1900-1940
13. Louise Ano Nuevo Kerr, Chicanos in Chicago: A Brief History.
14. Dennis Nodin Valdes, Settlers, Sojourners, and Proletarians: Social Formation in the Great Plains Sugar Beets Industry, 1890-1940.
15. Ricardo Romo, The Urbanization of Southwestern Chicanos in the Early 20th Century.
16. Cynthia E. Orozco, Regionalism, Politics, and Gender in Southwest History: The League of United Latin American Citizens' Expansion into New Mexico from Texas, 1929-1945.
17. Ramon D. Chacon, Labor Threat and Industrialized Agriculture in California: The Case of the 1933 San Joaquin Valley Cotton Strike.
18. Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Women, Work, and Community in the Mexican Colonias of the Southern California Citrus Belt.
19. Irene Ledesma, Texas Newspapers and Chicana Workers' Activism, 1919-1974.
IV. The Rise of the Middle Class: 1940-1965
20. Erasmo Gamboa, Braceros in the Pacific Northwest: Laborers on the Domestic Front, 1942-1947.
21. Christine Marin, Mexican Americans on the Home Front: Community Organizations in Arizona during World War II.
22. Vicki L. Ruiz, A Promise Fulfilled: Mexican Cannery Workers in Southern California.
23. Mario T. Garcia, Americans All: The Mexican-American Generation and the Politics of Wartime Los Angeles, 1941-1945.
24. Manuel Pena, From Ranchero to Jaiton: Ethnicity and Class in Texas-Mexican Music (Two Styles in the Form of a Pair).
25. Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., The Struggle against Separate and Unequal Schools: Middle Class Mexican Americans and the Desegregation Campaign in Texas, 1929-1957.
V. Chicanismo and Its Aftermath: 1965-2000
26. Richard A. Garcia, Dolores Huerta: Woman, Organizer, Symbol.
27. Carlos Munoz, Jr., and Mario Barrera, La Raza Unida Party and the Chicano Student Movement in California.
28. Maurilio Vigil, The Ethnic Organization as an Instrument of Political and Social Change: MALDEF, A Case Study.
29. Alma M. Garcia, The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse, 1970-1980.
30. Mary Pardo, Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: Mothers of East Los Angeles.
31. Leo R. Chavez, Settlers and Sojourners: The Case of Mexicans in the United States.
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