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Children of migrant laborers --- Mexican Americans --- Mexicans --- Ethnology --- Education --- Education.

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Winner of the 2007 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies AssociationUntil now, much of what has been written about Mexican American educational history has focused on California and Texas, while Colorado's story has remained largely untold. Rubén Donato recounts the social and educational history of Mexicans and Hispanos (descendents of Spanish troops who came to the region in the late 1500s) in Colorado from 1920 to 1960. He examines both groups' experiences in sugar beet towns, the experiences of Hispanos in Anglo American–controlled towns, and the Hispano experience in a historically Hispano-controlled town. Donato argues that whoever possessed power at the local level determined who ran the schools, who administered them, who taught in them, who succeeded in them, and what sorts of social and academic environments were created.

Sugar beet industry --- Mexican Americans --- Children of migrant laborers --- Beets and beet sugar --- Sugar trade --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Migrant laborers' children --- Migrant labor --- History --- Social conditions --- Employment --- Education

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Children of migrant laborers --- Children of agricultural laborers --- Community and school --- Education

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Southwest Montana is beautiful country, evoking mythologies of freedom and escape long associated with the West. Partly because of its burgeoning presence in popular culture, film, and literature, including William Kittredge's anthology The Last Best Place, the scarcely populated region has witnessed an influx of wealthy, white migrants over the last few decades. But another, largely invisible and unstudied type of migration is also present. Though Mexican migrants have worked on Montana's ranches and farms since the 1920's, increasing numbers of migrant families—both documented and undocumented—are moving to the area to support its growing construction and service sectors. The Last Best Place? asks us to consider the multiple racial and class-related barriers that Mexican migrants must negotiate in the unique context of Montana's rural gentrification. These daily life struggles and inter-group power dynamics are deftly examined through extensive interviews and ethnography, as are the ways gender structures inequalities within migrant families and communities. But Leah Schmalzbauer's research extends even farther to highlight the power of place and demonstrate how Montana's geography and rurality intersect with race, class, gender, family, illegality, and transnationalism to affect migrants' well-being and aspirations. Though the New West is just one among many new destinations, it forces us to recognize that the geographic subjectivities and intricacies of these destinations must be taken into account to understand the full complexity of migrant life.

Migrant labor --- Migrant laborers' families --- Foreign workers, Mexican --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Labor, Migrant --- Migrant workers --- Migrants (Migrant labor) --- Migratory workers --- Transient labor --- Alien labor, Mexican --- Mexican foreign workers --- Employees --- Casual labor --- Families --- Montana, Western --- Montana, Rocky Mountain --- Rocky Mountain Montana --- Western Montana

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In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown. How did interracial families negotiate their identities within these societies when mixed-race marriage was taboo and "Eurasian" often a derisive term? In Eurasian, Emma Jinhua Teng compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formation of Eurasian identities in these diverse contexts and the claims set forth by individual Eurasians concerning their own identities. Teng argues that Eurasians were not universally marginalized during this era, as is often asserted. Rather, Eurasians often found themselves facing contradictions between exclusionary and inclusive ideologies of race and nationality, and between overt racism and more subtle forms of prejudice that were counterbalanced by partial acceptance and privilege. By tracing the stories of mixed and transnational families during an earlier era of globalization, Eurasian also demonstrates to students, faculty, scholars, and researchers how changes in interracial ideology have allowed the descendants of some of these families to reclaim their dual heritage with pride.  

Interracial marriage --- Chinese American families --- Chinese Americans --- Intermarriage --- Families, Chinese American --- Families --- Chinese --- Ethnology --- Social conditions. --- Ethnic identity --- History. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- american society. --- anthropology. --- china. --- chinese society. --- chinese western families. --- cross cultural. --- cultural anthropologists. --- cultural history. --- eurasian identities. --- eurasian. --- global trade. --- globalization. --- historians. --- hong kong. --- interracial families. --- migrant laborers. --- minority groups. --- mixed identities. --- mixed race families. --- nationalities. --- overseas study. --- prejudice. --- racial issues. --- racial prejudice. --- racism. --- social identity. --- social issues. --- taboo. --- transnational families. --- united states.