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(Mexican American, 1940) Forgotten People / A Study of New Mexicans Author: Sanchez, George I. Place Published: Albuquerque Publisher: Univ. of New Mexico Press Date Published: 1940 Description: 98 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Original cloth, map endpapers. Inscribed on half-title by the author. Sanchez was a renowned educational pioneer of the post-World War II era. Another cornerstone of Mexican American scholarship, building on the research methods of Gamio and Taylor, but 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, later hailed as the “dean of Mexican American scholars” and the “father of Chicano psychology” 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, living to see the acceptance of bilingual and bi-cultural education he had long championed. 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. Condition: Cloth with moderate soil and wear; very good. Item#: 347105a Headline: Inscribed classic of New Mexico socio-economics