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HE CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND WORK of the Mexican people in the United States are no longer a problem only of the borderlands. An historical process has been at work lifting this problem above local and sectional concern. It now involves communities as distant from the United StatesMexican border as Chicago, New York and Detroit. It shows up in an arc stretching from Arkansas to Northern California. It is documented in federal reports on employment, and in community conferences on human relations in the urban-industrial North and East as well as in the ruralagricultural Southwest. To understand the present cultural manifestations of Mexican-Americans, it is necessary to understand their family structure. Living in isolation in small villages for several centuries, they have developed very distinct family patterns. An analysis of the contemporary Mexican-American family, its history, and its prospects for the future is essential to an awareness of the Mexican-American culture.
Robert Staples (Fri,) studied this question.