Introduction -- Part One. Crossing borders : Farewell homeland -- Across the dividing line -- Newcomers in the City of Angels -- Part Two. Divided loyalties : Americanizartion and the Mexican immigrant -- The 'New Nationalism, ' Mexican style -- Part Three. Shifting homelands : Family life and the search for stability -- The sacred and the profane : Religious adaptations -- Familiar sounds of change : Music and the growth of mass culture -- Workers and consumers : A community emerges -- Part Four. Ambivalent Americanism : Where is home? The dilemma of repatriation -- Forging a new politics of opposition -- The rise of the second generation -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-349) and index.