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I NTRODUCTION 1. The following studies address the story of wartime production: Richard Polenberg , America at War: The Home Front, 1941–1945 (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice -Hall, 1968); William O’Neill, A Democracy at War: America’s Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II (New York: Free Press, 1993); Allan M. Winkler, Home Front U.S.A.: America during World War II (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2000); Avid Reynolds, From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). 2. Home front experiences, including the contradiction between the rhetoric of democracy and justice and the reality of discrimination and inequality involving workers, minorities, and women, are addressed in the following: John Morton Blum, V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture during World War II (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976); Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987); O’Neill, Democracy at War; Elizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990); Ronald Takaki, Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000); Emilio Zamora, Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009). 3.JuanGonzalez,HarvestofEmpire:AHistoryofLatinosinAmerica(NewYork:Penguin Books, 2001); Suárez-Orozco and Páez, eds., Latinos: Remaking America (Berkenotes NOTES TO PAGES 3–4· 180 · ley: University of California Press, 2002); Flores, “From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity,” in Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives, edited by Robin G. Kelley and Janice Radway (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000); Alamillo, “Bibliographic Essay on U.S. Latino/a History,” National Park Service, 2008, http://www.nps.gov/history/history/resedu/latino.pdf. 4. See the following additional works that examine the history and contemporary experiences of distinct Latino/a groups with varying degrees of attention to comparability in the wider Latino/a population: Clara E. Rodríguez and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, eds., Historical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Survival in the United States (Princeton , N.J.: Markus Wiener, 1980); Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise, 1940–1990 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990); Ramona Hernández, The Mobility of Workers under Advanced Capitalism: Dominican Migration totheUnitedStates(NewYork:ColumbiaUniversityPress,2002);FelixMasud-Piloto, With Open Arms: Cuban Migration to the United States (New York: Rowman and Littlefield , 1988). Three of the most recent reference books are David Gutiérrez, ed., The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States since 1960 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004); Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González, eds., The Oxford EncyclopediaofLatinosandLatinasintheUnitedStates (NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress, 2005); Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, eds., Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, 3 vols. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006). 5. Castañeda, “The Second Rate Citizen and Democracy,” in Alonso Perales, comp., Are We Good Neighbors? (San Antonio: Artes Gráficas, 1948). 6. For an examination of the persistence of inequality in the face of improved wartime opportunities, see Zamora, Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs. 7. M. T. García, Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930–1960 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989); Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1886 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987); Sánchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900– 1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); San Miguel, “Let All of Them Take Heed”:MexicanAmericansandtheCampaignforEducationalEqualityinTexas,1910–1981 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987); Gómez-Quiñones, Chicano Politics. 8. Pauline Kibbe, Latin Americans in Texas (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1946); Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of the United States (New York: Greenwood Press, 1948); Perales, Are We Good Neighbors? Raul Morín, Among the Valiant: Mexican-Americans in WW II and Korea (Alhambra, Calif.: Borden Publishing Co., 1963). 9. The long-lasting view that military service and battlefield sacrifice encouraged Mexican soldiers to adopt a stronger sense of self-worth and civic confidence and that this realization morphed into an Americanized ethnic identity and renewed civil rights cause is examined in the following: M. T. García, Mexican Americans; Sánchez, Becoming Mexican American; Manuel G. Gonzales, Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999); Matt García...

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