Full Description
Focusing on the economic foundations of inequality as they have affected Chicanos in the Southwest from the Mexican-American War to the present, Mario Barrera develops his theory as a synthesis of class and colonial analyses.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Nineteenth Century, Part I: Conquest and Dispossession
3. The Nineteenth Century, Part II: The Establishment of a Colonial Labor System
4. From the Turn of the Century to the Great Depression
5. The Contemporary Period
6. The Role of the State
7. A Theory of Racial Inequality
Appendix: The Case of International Harvester
