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Mexican labor in the United States

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The article was published on 1970-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 102 citations till now.

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Docile Children and Dangerous Revolutionaries: The Racial Hierarchy of Manliness and the Bisbee Deportation of 1917

TL;DR: The authors examined l'evolution des relations entre masculinite and race a trois stades de l'histoire de Bisbee : dans le monde social qui s'etait developpe dans la ville avant 1917 ; pendant la greve, quand les travailleurs mexicains ont conteste les termes des conventions sociales a Bisbee ; final, dans the reponse violente de lautodefence sous la forme de la deportation and de ses suites.
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Mexican mass labor migration in a not-so changing political economy

TL;DR: The authors places Mexican migration in the context of the longue duree of Mexican-U.S. political and economic relations and argues that 21st-century migration not only has its roots in the 19th ce...
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‘The Mexican’ and ‘The Cancer in the South’: Discourses of Race, Nation and Anti-blackness in Early Twentieth-Century Debates on Mexican Immigration

TL;DR: This article examined how both sides of this debate placed Mexicans within a particular historical narrative of race and nation, positioned in relation to a range of other populations, including Chinese and Japanese immigrants, Native Americans, Filipinos and Puerto Ricans.
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National Moat, Regional Lifeline: The Campaign for the All-American Canal, 1917–1944

TL;DR: The authors argued that the campaign revealed various means by which government representatives, corporate interests, and local residents constructed "Mexican" and "American" identities in the early 20th century, and that the international competition influenced not only the trajectory of land reform in the delta but the larger federal reclamation policies of both nations.