La Familia
In detailed historical analyses of Mexican immigration, economic class struggle, intermarriage, urbanization and industrialization, regional differences, and discrimination and prejudice, La Familia demonstrates how such social and economic factors have contributed to the contemporary diversity of the Mexican-American family. By comparing their family experience with those of European immigrants, he discloses important dimensions of Mexican-American ethnicity.
Richard Griswold del Castillo is chair of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University. He is author of The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict, and The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850–1890: A Social History, and editor of Chicano San Diego: Cultural Space and the Struggle for Justice.