Description: 1940 FORGOTTEN PEOPLE, INSCRIBED Classic of native poor of NEW MEXICO 1940 FORGOTTEN PEOPLE, INSCRIBED Classic of native poor of NEW MEXICO George I. Sanchez. FORGOTTEN PEOPLE, A STUDY OF NEW MEXICANS (University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1940) 98 pp. Original hardcover cloth binding. Illustrated with photographs. Map on endpapers. Covers with moderate soil and wear. Very Good condition overall.FIRST EDITION. Inscribed and signed on half-title page by the author, a renowned educational pioneer, called the “dean of Mexican American scholars” and the “father of Chicano psychology” A cornerstone of Mexican American literature, unique in its focus on older, pre-immigration communities in New Mexico. The author used sociological methods to document the troubling experiences of Spanish-speaking New Mexicans. Sanchez was himself a New Mexico native, born to a family of Nuevo Mexicanos, people of Mexican-Spanish descent, whose ancestors had lived in what had been a Mexican province before the American conquest of the 1840s. The son of a working-class father who had labored in Arizona copper mines, Sanchez became a distinguished educator with degrees from UC Berkeley and the Universities of New Mexico and Texas and experience as a public school administrator before a research position in Chicago gave him the opportunity to establish himself, over three decades, as a foremost expert on the educational and social needs of Spanish-speaking groups in the United States. In 1938, with a Foundation grant, he began research on the impoverished condition of Nuevo Mexicanos, notably in Taos, which led to this enduring classic.
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