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They Came to Toil: Newspaper Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression

They Came to Toil: Newspaper Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression

Garza, Melita M.

Hardcover

Writing Instruction20th Century United States HistoryLatino Studies

ISBN10: 1477314067
ISBN13: 9781477314067
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Feb 14 2018
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

As the Great Depression gripped the United States in the early 1930s, the Hoover administration sought to preserve jobs for Anglo-Americans by targeting Mexicans, including long-time residents and even US citizens, for deportation. Mexicans comprised more than 46 percent of all people deported between 1930 and 1939, despite being only 1 percent of the US population. In all, about half a million people of Mexican descent were deported to Mexico, a homeland many of them had never seen, or returned voluntarily in fear of deportation.

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