U.S. Army on the Mexican Border: A Historical Perspective

U.S. Army on the Mexican Border: A Historical Perspective
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN: 1437923038

This occasional paper is a concise overview of the history of the US Army's involvement along the Mexican border and offers a fundamental understanding of problems associated with such a mission. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the historic themes addressed disapproving public reaction, Mexican governmental instability, and insufficient US military personnel to effectively secure the expansive boundary are still prevalent today.

Border Games

Border Games
Author: Peter Andreas
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801487569

Yet the unprecedented buildup of border policing has taken place in an era otherwise defined by the opening of the border, most notably through NAFTA. This contrast creates a borderless economy with a barricaded border.".

Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Author: Denise A. Segura
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822341185

Seminal essays on how women adapt to the structural transformations caused by the large migration from Mexico to the U.S.A., how they create or contest representations of their identities in light of their marginality, and give voice to their own agency.

Arizona Firestorm

Arizona Firestorm
Author:
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2012
Genre: Arizona
ISBN: 1442214163

Arizona Firestorm brings together well respected experts from across the political spectrum to examine and contextualize the political, economic, historical, and legal issues prompted by this and other anti-Latino and anti-immigrant legislation and state actions. It also addresses the media's role in shaping immigration discourse in Arizona and elsewhere.

Term Paper Resource Guide to Latino History

Term Paper Resource Guide to Latino History
Author: Michael P. Moreno
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2010-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This resource guide to 100 key events in Latino history provides students, librarians, and scholars with hundreds of original and compelling term paper ideas and the key print and electronic sources needed for research. Latinos are the largest, fastest growing minority group in the United States, and the ways they have positively impacted our nation are significant and undeniable. This book examines the contributions of Latinos to U.S. history, providing hundreds of possible topics for term papers and research projects along with primary, secondary, web, and multimedia sources of topical information. Subjects such as the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848); the Bracero Program (1942); the United Farm Workers of America Is Formed (1962); and The Great American Boycott ("A Day Without Immigrants") of 2006 are just a few samples of the topics included. Each historical event is described briefly, followed by direction toward specific research and writing topics for the student-historian. At least two alternative term paper suggestions complement these ideas, allowing creative, original approaches to historical inquires.

Unity and Diversity in America

Unity and Diversity in America
Author: Frances Scott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1999
Genre: Cultural pluralism
ISBN:

This is the 95th issue of the US Air Force Academy Libraries' Special Bibliographic Series. Created by Ms. Frances K. Scott, Political Sciences Bibliographer and Reference Librarian, this issue of the Series was developed to support the 42nd annual Academy Assembly to be held 15-18 February 2000. The Assembly, sponsored by the Department of Political Science, brings more than 150 delegates from more than 100 colleges and universities to discuss and to debate a contemporary issue. This year's theme is: Unity and Diversity in America: Tradition and Change in the 20th Century.