| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Mexican-Origin People in the United States: A Topical History. By Oscar J. Martínez. (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2001. xxvii + 244 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, cloth; $17.95 paper.)

In this concise overview of the Mexican American experience in the United States, Oscar Martínez gives a conceptual and broadly painted picture of the social, political, and economic lives of this ethnic group during the twentieth century. Using a chronological overlay, Martínez explores the difficulties and challenges that native-born Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants faced as they made their way into the economic, political, social, and cultural world of the American Southwest and Midwest. Martínez also clearly shows that this was not a one-way transfer of culture and ideology from the dominant U. S. forces to Mexicans, but rather a dynamic exchange in which Mexican culture and Mexican Americans have had a profound impact on U. S. politics and popular culture. . . .

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