Dissertation Information for Christine Marin NAME: - Christine Marin
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- Arizona State University (USA) (2005)
ADVISORS: - Edward J. Escobar
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Noel J. Stowe - Vicki L. Ruiz
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Always a struggle: Mexican Americans in Miami, Arizona, 1909--1951
Abstract: "Always a Struggle: Mexican Americans in Miami, Arizona, 1909-1951" examines the Mexicano and Mexican American experience in a copper mining town located approximately ninety miles east of metropolitan Phoenix. Scholars have not examined this group's history in Miami, Arizona; this is the first study.
Primary and secondary sources, as well as numerous oral history interviews, provide the evidence that supports the thesis that Mexicanos and Mexican Americans have always struggled to claim their rights as Americans in their copper town. Despite the racism, segregation and the discrimination they encountered from Euro-Americans in building their lives, Mexican Americans persevered and fought back to claim their rights as Americans and attained the American dream of success and education.
In reconstructing this history, several themes emerge: ethnic relations; social, religious, and school segregation; the Great Depression and the repatriation movement; the rise of unionism and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers' (IUMMSW) efforts to seek wage equality for its members; the leadership of working class Mexican Americans in the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Chapter #111; the Mexicano and Mexican Americans' alliance with African Americans to prevent the destruction and removal of their homes for the sake of development and tourist dollars; and, the rise of the third generation of Mexican Americans through education and sports. In Miami, Arizona, basketball became a symbol of the American dream of equality.
Mexicanos and Mexican Americans played pivotal roles in the socioeconomic, educational and union-building history of Miami, Arizona and their struggle for equality is an American story.
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