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A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses 2 books by these authors. Authors Rodolfo Acuna (Occupied America, 2000) and Ernesto Galarza (Barrio Boy, 1971) both discuss the centrality of Mexican immigration to American history and progress, but they do so from different perspectives that each shed light on Mexican immigrant experience. Acuna focuses on the role of Mexican immigrant labor to the success of agricultural endeavors in the US Southwest and how this contributed significantly to American prosperity. Galarza's book, as an autobiography, is a more personal account that reveals the route that naturalized Mexican-Americans have been compelled to follow in order to achieve success in the US. No additional sources cited.
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so from different perspectives that each shed light on Mexican immigrant experience. Acuna focuses on the role of Mexican immigrant labor to the success of agricultural endeavors in the US
Southwest and how this contributed significantly to American prosperity. Galarzas book, as an autobiography, is a more personal account that reveals the route that naturalized Mexican-Americans have been compelled to
follow in order to achieve success in the US. In both books it is clear that the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the social turmoil that it
created, was one of the driving forces behind Mexican immigration. This was the impetus that drove Galarzas family from their mountain home in a Mexican village that had only one
street--which was "hardly more than an open stretch of the mule trail that disappeared into the forest north and south of the pueblo"--to the bustling streets of a Sacremento barrio
(Galarza 7). For Galarza, the way out of the barrio was to master English and work hard academically. He labored in the fields during the summer, but Galarza used his
intelligence and determination to work his way first through Occidental College and then Stanford and Columbia. Galarza assimilated into American mainstream culture, but never lot his affinity for his native
culture and was a leader in the Chicano movement of the 1950 and 60s. Galarza saw the treatment of Mexican agricultural workers as antithetical to the American principles of freedom
that had won his allegiance. This topic is the focus of Acunas book. Acuna recounts how, during World War, US agencies actively recruited Mexican workers for the railway and agricultural
industries. American industry wanted Mexican machinists, mechanics, painters and plumbers. However, by the 1920, abuses of immigrant labor had become so severe that it drew the attention of the
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