Balderrama (American history and Chicano studies, California State U.-Los Angeles) and Rodríguez (emeritus, Long Beach City College, California) describe a frenzy of anti-Mexican hysteria: punitive measures by federal, state, and local governments; laws depriving Mexicans of jobs in the public and private sectors; immigration and deportation laws, mass deportation roundups; and vigilante violence. There was no high-tech fence in the 1930s. They look at the people who resisted the onslaught, those who fled to Mexico, and those who did not survive. No date is noted for the first edition. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)