Francisco E Balderrama: 3 books

Book cover of Decade of Betrayal

Decade of Betrayal

Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s, Revised Edition.

by Francisco E. Balderrama, Raymond Rodríguez
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006

During the Great Depression, a sense of total despair plagued the United States. Americans sought a convenient scapegoat and found it in the Mexican community. Laws forbidding employment of Mexicans were accompanied by the hue and cry to "get rid of the Mexicans!" The hysteria led pandemic repatriation...
Book cover of The Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution

Conflict and Consolidation, 1910-1940

by Nicholas Villanueva Jr., Don M. Coerver, Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013

In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn provided the basis for a reform agenda that transformed Mexico in the modern era. The civil war and the reforms...
Book cover of Mexican American Baseball in Los Angeles
by Francisco E. Balderrama, Richard A. Santillan
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011

Images of Baseball: Mexican American Baseball in Los Angeles celebrates the flourishing culture of the great pastime in East Los Angeles and other communities where a strong sense of Mexican identity and pride was fostered in a sporting atmosphere of both fierce athleticism and social celebration. From...
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