Mexifornia [[electronic resource] ] : A State of Becoming

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910139469203321
• Autore: Hanson Victor Davis
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Encounter Books, 2007
• ISBN: 1-59403-867-8; 1-282-48773-6; 9786612487736; 1-59403-285-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (178 p.)
• Collana: Encounter Broadsides
• Disciplina: 305.868; 305.86872
• Soggetti: California - Emigration and immigration; California -- Emigration and immigration; California - Ethnic relations; California -- Ethnic relations; California - Social conditions; California -- Social conditions; Hanson, Victor Davis; Hanson, Victor Davis. Selma (Calif.) -- Biography; Immigrants - Government policy - California; Immigrants -- Government policy -- California; Mexican Americans - California - Social conditions; Mexican Americans -- California -- Social conditions; Mexican Americans - Government policy - California; Mexican Americans -- Government policy -- California; Mexico - Emigration and immigration; Mexico -- Emigration and immigration; Popular culture - California; Popular culture -- California; Selma (Calif.); Mexican Americans - Social conditions - California; Regions & Countries - Americas; United States Local History; History & Archaeology; Electronic books.; California Emigration and immigration; Mexico Emigration and immigration; California Ethnic relations; California Social conditions; Selma (Calif.) Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface; Introduction; ONE What Is So Different about Mexican Immigration?; TWO The Universe of the Illegal Alien; THREE The Mind of the Host; FOUR The Old Simplicity That Worked; FIVE The New Gods That Failed; SIX A Remedy in Popular Culture?; EPILOGUE Forks in the Road
• Sommario/riassunto: Massive illegal immigration from Mexico into California, Victor Davis Hanson writes, ""coupled with a loss of confidence in the old melting pot model of transforming newcomers into Americans, is changing the very nature of state. Yet we Californians have been inadequate in meeting this challenge, both failing to control our borders with Mexico and to integrate the new alien population into our mainstream."" Part history, part political analysis, and part memoir, ""Mexifornia"" is an intensely personal work by one of our most important writers. Hanson is perhaps known best for his