Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction (Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez)
• Chapter 1. The Five Sanchez Brothers in World War II: Remembrance and Discovery (Rita Sanchez)
• Chapter 2. The Beating of Private Aguirre: A Story about West Texas during World War II (David Montejano)
• Chapter 3. On the West Side: A Portrait of Lanier High School during World War II (Julio Noboa)
• Chapter 4. Lost Momentum: World War II and the Education of Hispanos in New Mexico (Lynne Marie Getz)
• Chapter 5. The Mexican American Dream and World War II: A View from the Midwest (DionÍcio ValdÉs)
• Chapter 6. Zoot Violence on the Home Front: Race, Riots, and Youth Culture during World War II (Luis Alvarez)
• Chapter 7. What a Difference a War Makes! (Maria Eva Flores)
• Chapter 8. Framing Racism: Newspaper Coverage of the Three Rivers Incident (Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez)
• Chapter 9. Mexico’s Wartime Intervention on Behalf of Mexicans in the United States: A Turning of Tables (Emilio Zamora)
• Chapter 10. Rosita the Riveter: Welding Tradition with Wartime Transformations (Naomi QuiÑonez)
• Chapter 11. On the Nation's Periphery: Mexican Braceros and the Pacific Northwest Railroad Industry, 1943-1946 (Erasmo Gamboa)
• Selected Readings
• About the Writers
• Index

Promotional Information

A celebration of the overlooked contributions of the 750,000 Mexican American veterans of the "Greatest Generation"

Promotional Information

A celebration of the overlooked contributions of the 750,000 Mexican American veterans of the "Greatest Generation"

About the Author

Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez is Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1999, she launched the U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project, which has so far gathered more than 450 interviews. This book is, in part, an outgrowth of that research.

Reviews

This text makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the Mexican American experience. (Western Historical Quarterly) This book provides a much-needed resource for historians of World War II and as a historical backdrop to the generational origins of the Chicano civil rights movements. (Hispanic Outlook) Never in one book has the diversity of the wartime Mexican American experience been covered so fully. (Military History of the West)