Book
Mexican Americans
Prentice-Hall • Englewood, Cliffs, N.j. • Published In 1970 • Pages:
By: Moore, Joan W., Cuéllar, Alfredo B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a general introduction to Mexican Americans of the United States. The subjects discussed are the status of Mexican Americans in Ameican life, history, sources of diversity, Mexican Americans' experiences with American institutions, families and communities, language and culture, and political behavior.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Ethos
- Cultural identity and pride
- History
- Education system
- Standard of living
- External migration
- Legal and judicial personnel
- Settlement patterns
- Urban and rural life
- Kin relationships
- Linguistic identification
- Political movements
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1986
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- nineteenth century - 1960s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- western and southwestern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Joan W. Moore with Alfredo Cuéllar
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-164)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77113844
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans