World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights

by Richard Griswold del Castillo

World War II marked a turning point for Mexican Americans that fundamentally changed their expectations about how they should be treated by the greater U.S. society. The experiences of fighting alongside white Americans in the military, as well as of working in factory jobs for wages equal to those of Anglo workers, made Mexican Americans less willing to tolerate the second-class citizenship that had been their lot before the war. Having proven...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292717393
• ISBN13: 9780292717398
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"