{"title":"History--Hispanic \u0026 Latino","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"banished-citizens-a-history-of-the-mexican-american-women-who-endured-repatriation","title":"Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans--mostly women and children who were US citizens--were forced to relocate across the southern border.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 1921 to 1944, approximately one million ethnic Mexicans living in the United States were removed across the border to Mexico. What officials called \"repatriation\" was in fact banishment: 60 percent of those expelled were US citizens, mainly working-class women and children whose husbands and fathers were Mexican immigrants. Drawing on oral histories, transnational archival sources, and private collections, Marla A. Ramírez illuminates the lasting effects of coerced mass removal on three generations of ethnic Mexicans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRamírez argues that banishment served interests on both sides of the border. In the United States, the government accused ethnic Mexicans of dependence on social services in order to justify removal, thereby scapegoating them for post-World War I and Depression-era economic woes. In Mexico, meanwhile, officials welcomed returnees for their potential to bolster the labor force. In the process, all Mexicans in the United States--citizens and undocumented immigrants alike--were cast as financially burdensome and culturally foreign. Shedding particular light on the experiences of banished women, Ramírez depicts the courage and resilience of their efforts to reclaim US citizenship and return home. Nevertheless, banishment often interrupted their ability to pass on US citizenship to their children, robbed their families of generational wealth, and drastically slowed upward mobility. Today, their descendants continue to confront and resist the impact of these injustices--and are breaking the silence to ensure that this history is not forgotten. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA wrenching account of expulsion and its afterlives, \u003ci\u003eBanished Citizens\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the continuing social, legal, and economic consequences of a removal campaign still barely acknowledged in either Mexico or the United States.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0674295943\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780674295940\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Ramírez, Marla A.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Oct 2025)","offer_id":46080775553221,"sku":"9780674295940","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780674295940.jpg?v=1776040222"},{"product_id":"mexico-a-500-year-history","title":"Mexico: A 500-Year History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction Book of 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom acclaimed and prize-winning historian Paul Gillingham, a rich and vibrant history of one of the world's most diverse, politically ground-breaking, and influential of countries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of his masterful work of scholarship and narration, Paul Gillingham writes, from its outset \"Mexico was more profoundly, globally hybrid than anywhere else in the prior history of the world.\" Over the ensuing five centuries, Mexicans have prefigured and shaped the course of human lives across the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGillingham begins in 1511 with the dramatic shipwreck of two Spanish sailors in the far south of Mexico. Ten years later Hernán Cortés led an army of European adventurers and indigenous rebels to seize the legendary island city of Tenochtitlán, the center of Montezuma's empire, the largest in the Americas. The capture of the future Mexico City was, more than an extraordinary military event, the collision of two long-separated worlds, radically different in everything from biota to urban planning. Spaniards discovered tomatoes, chocolate, and a city larger and more sophisticated than anything they had ever seen. Mexicans discovered horses, wheels, and lethal germs, sparking a cataclysmic century of disease that wiped out a majority of the pre-existing population and led to a unique recombination of European and indigenous cultures. The industrial mining of Mexico's silver transformed the wealth and trade of the world. Mexico's independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821 led to a calamitous mid-century war with the United States and one of the first great social revolutions that brought peace for Mexicans throughout many of the global horrors of the 20th century, before the country itself collapsed into the violence of the cartels and a refugee crisis in the 2000s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe history of Mexico has been, Gillingham shows, one of suffering empire but also of overcoming. Through it all the country set new standards for inclusivity, for progressive social policies, for artistic expression, for adroitly balancing dictatorship and democracy. While racial divides endured, so too did indigenous peoples, who enjoyed rights unthinkable in the United States. Mexico was among the first countries to abolish slavery in 1829, and Mexicans elected North America's first Black president, Vicente Guerrero, its only indigenous president, Benito Juárez, and its only woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs elegantly written as it is powerful in scope, rich in character and anecdote, \u003ci\u003eMexico\u003c\/i\u003e uses the latest research to dazzling effect, showing how often Mexico has been a dynamic and vital shaper of world affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0802164846\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780802164841\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Gillingham, Paul\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Atlantic Monthly Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Monthly Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Nov 2025)","offer_id":46080836272325,"sku":"9780802164841","price":33.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780802164841.jpg?v=1776040675"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/collections\/history-hispanic-latino.oembed","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}