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The following readings were compiled by UMN Morris student Ethan Simmons as he explored immigration to the U.S. from Mexico and Latin American countries. It is meant to provide those engaging with the Uniting Cultures exhibit with additional resources to explore the complexities of the United States’ relationship with Central and South America. It is not a complete list of resources and is meant to simply be a starting point.
Proletarians of the North a History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933. Vargas, Zaragosa. University of California Press, 1999.
Lim, Julian. Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.s.-Mexico Borderlands. University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
León de Arnoldo, and Richard Griswold del Castillo. North to Aztlán: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States. Harlan Davidson, 2006.
Norris, Jim. North for the Harvest: Mexican Workers, Growers, and the Sugar Beet Industry. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009.
Vargas, Zaragosa. Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Era. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Montejo, Victor. Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village. Curbstone Press, 1999.
Menchu, Rigoberta. I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala. Edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, Verso, 1992.
Chomsky, Aviva. Central Americas Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration. Beacon Press, 2022.
Romero (movie)
D'Haeseleer, Brian. The Salvadoran Crucible: The Failure of US Counterinsurgency in El Salvador, 1979-1992. University Press of Kansas, 2017.
Gleijeses, Piero. Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954. Princeton University Press, 2006.
LeoGrande, William M. Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992. The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Rabe, Stephen G. The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Booth, John A., et al. Understanding Central America: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras: From Independence to the Present. Westview, 2005.
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