| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Forced Sacrifice as Ethnic Protest: The Hispano Cause in New Mexico & the Racial Attitude Confrontation of 1933. By Phillip B. Gonzales. (New York: Peter Lang, 2001. xiv + 275 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95, cloth; $29.95, paper.)

From the end of the Mexican American War until the 1930s, Nuevomexicanos—Spanish speaking New Mexicans—had seen a tremendous reversal in fortunes: the war had transformed their beloved homeland into a U. S. territory, and there was an ensuing dismantling and reshaping of the institutions and social order. The new dueños, owners, were the Anglo newcomers who used the tools available to them—legal and otherwise—to take seventy-five percent of the land that had been held in common by villagers. In the ensuing years, there was a further erosion of economic and political power for Nuevomexicanos. By the 1930s, widespread unrest among Nuevomexicanos led them to protest, in large public meetings, particularly severe discrimination. . . .

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