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Mexifornia : A State of Becoming



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Autore: Hanson Victor Davis Visualizza persona
Titolo: Mexifornia : A State of Becoming Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Encounter Books, 2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (178 p.)
Disciplina: 305.868
305.86872
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: California Emigration and immigration
Mexico Emigration and immigration
California Ethnic relations
California Social conditions
Selma (Calif.) Biography
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
Titolo abbreviato (Periodici): MEXIFORNIA
Titolo autorizzato: Mexifornia  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-59403-867-8
1-282-48773-6
9786612487736
1-59403-285-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910139469203321
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Serie: Encounter Broadsides