LEADER 04519nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910777689203321 005 20230207224601.0 010 $a0-292-79752-4 024 7 $a10.7560/701861 035 $a(CKB)1000000000453940 035 $a(OCoLC)191935483 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10192305 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000133739 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11150721 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000133739 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10045678 035 $a(PQKB)11236439 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443106 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19313 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443106 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10192305 035 $a(DE-B1597)587542 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292797529 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000453940 100 $a20030529d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCulture of empire$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican writers, Mexico, and Mexican immigrants, 1880-1930 /$fGilbert G. Gonza?lez 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (266 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-70186-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $t1.THE ECONOMIC CONQUEST AND ITS SOCIAL RELATIONS -- $t2.AMERICAN WRITERS INVADE MEXICO -- $t3.THE IMPERIAL BURDEN:THE MEXICAN PROBLEM AND AMERICANIZATION -- $t4.THE PEACEFUL CONQUEST AND MEXICAN MIGRATION WITHIN MEXICO AND TO THE UNITED STATES -- $t5.THE TRANSNATIONAL MEXICAN PROBLEM -- $t6. EMPIRE, DOMESTIC POLICY, AND THE EDUCATION OF MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS -- $tCONCLUSION -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aA 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. González. 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 of modernizing without Americanizing, that is, submitting to the control of U.S. capital. So powerful was and is the culture of empire that its messages about Mexicans shaped U.S. public policy, particularly in education, throughout the twentieth century and even into the twenty-first. In this stimulating history, Gilbert G. González traces the development of the culture of empire and its effects on U.S. attitudes and policies toward Mexican immigrants. Following a discussion of the United States' economic conquest of the Mexican economy, González examines several hundred pieces of writing by American missionaries, diplomats, business people, journalists, academics, travelers, and others who together created the stereotype of the Mexican peon and the perception of a "Mexican problem." He then fully and insightfully discusses how this misinformation has shaped decades of U.S. public policy toward Mexican immigrants and the Chicano (now Latino) community, especially in terms of the way university training of school superintendents, teachers, and counselors drew on this literature in forming the educational practices that have long been applied to the Mexican immigrant community. 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aMexican Americans$xSocial conditions 606 $aMexican Americans$xEducation 606 $aMexicans$xMigrations 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zMexico$xHistoriography 607 $aMexico$xRelations$zUnited States$xHistoriography 607 $aMexico$xHistoriography 607 $aUnited States$xForeign economic relations$zMexico 607 $aMexico$xForeign economic relations$zUnited States 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aMexican Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aMexican Americans$xEducation. 615 0$aMexicans$xMigrations. 615 0$aImmigrants$xSocial conditions. 676 $a303.48/273072/09034 700 $aGonzalez$b Gilbert G.$f1941-$0969656 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777689203321 996 $aCulture of empire$93765358 997 $aUNINA