And elsewhere. As we discuss their experiences, their trials and tribulations. What they live through the 1920s and the great depression. I mention a couple of times and we will be spending most of today discussing what happened to their children. Million plus migrants who brought children with them in the 20s and 30s, or had children who were born as american citizens and came of age in the 1930s and early 1940s and would become known as the Mexican American generation. Who would become young adults living in the United States as the nation went to war during world war ii. Selenium, japanese and fascism around the world. This is what we will be talking about this week. I want to remind you a couple of the Big Questions we have been tracing over the last several weeks, not the least of which is is considered Mexican American or american more generally. Was is awarded firstclass citizenship in American Society . This changes with these million plus migrants and their offspring. Is a tra
Conventional gender and racial identities. This class is about an hour and 20 minutes. Let me rewind you let me remind you where we are. Abouteek we talked a lot 1910 and the mexican revolutions and the dramatic changes this made for the mexican folk on the northern side of the border. This week we are going to begin discussion of our third flashpoint in the course, which is 1933, really as a stand in for world war ii. At that ye and d week we had been discussing those million plus mexican migrants who moved north of the border into the United States. Ofy of them, hundreds thousands of them and their children settling in the southwestern United States. California, texas and elsewhere. We discussed their experiences, their trials and tribulations, what they lived through in the 1920s and 1930s and the great depression. I will be spending most of today discussing what happened to their children, those million plus migrants who brought children with them in the 20s and 30s or had children
Take on what happened but also a look at the politics at the time that made the troops stay overseas in world war ii. Host lissa warren, you mentioned youre an acquiring editor. How long is the process of getting the book on the shelfs to the time you acquire it . Guest its just like having a baby, it takes about nine months from hand you script through the man you script, the copy editing process and then the cover design. I would have, at point, 20 children if i was having babies instead of publicizing books because ive been doing this for 20 books now. To write it, it usually takes a year or two, sometimes three if its a long book or one that requires a lot of research. They are pretty knee deep in evaluating copy edit suggestions that have been made. That can take several weeks. Occasionally a month or two, but we dont always have that long. We also need to keep books in the season that theyve been slotted, and so we have to keep the schedule, and the authors get some time with the
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