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dc.contributor.authorBalderrama, Francisco E.
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-15T11:39:08Z
dc.date.available2024-08-15T11:39:08Z
dc.date.issued1982
dc.identifierONIX_20240815_9780816537846_5
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92765
dc.description.abstractMexican communities in the United States faced more than unemployment during the Great Depression. Discrimination against Mexican nationals and similar prejudices against Mexican Americans led the communities to seek help from Mexican consulates, which in most cases rose to their defense. Los Angeles’s consulate was confronted with the country’s largest concentration of Mexican Americans, for whom the consuls often assumed a position of community leadership. Whether helping the unemployed secure repatriation and relief or intervening in labor disputes, consuls uniquely adapted their roles in international diplomacy to the demands of local affairs.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
dc.subject.otherMexico. Consulado (Los Angeles,Calif.) -- History.
dc.subject.otherMexican Americans -- California.
dc.titleIn Defense of La Raza
dc.title.alternativeThe Los Angeles Mexican Consulate and the Mexican Community, 1929 to 1936
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy40b84fbe-c64c-45d0-b80a-f260ee8b8f03
oapen.imprintUniversity of Arizona Press
oapen.pages150


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