- Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. 1848-1964 One Cowboys and Outlaws Two Working and Traveling on the Railroad Three Revolution and Hard Times Four Of Migrants and Renegades Five Repatriation and Deportation Six The Bracero Program Part Two. After 1964 Seven Songs of Protest Eight Border-Crossing Strategies Nine Racial Tension Ten Poverty, Petroleum, and Amnesty Eleven Love Twelve Acculturation and Assimilation Thirteen Death Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.
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"Northward Bound" argues that the folksong is a viable and important document chronicling the history of Chicano/as in the United States. It traces Mexican emigration to the United States from 1848 to 1991 through the lyrics of Mexican ballads (corridos) and contemporary popular songs (canciones). These autobiographical songs reflect the relationship between individual experience and the history-making process. Over a century of Chicano history unfolds in the more than 150 folksongs Herrera-Sobek has gathered: lives of cowboys and outlaws; construction of the railroad; the Mexican revolution; the Roaring Twenties and subsequent Depression; the bracero experience; the C sar Ch vez farmworkers' union movements; responses to racism; Border Patrol brutality and border-crossing strategies.
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