Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-269) and index
Antecedents of the images -- Conquest -- Gringo versus greaser in conquest fiction -- Women of the conquest -- Exploitation -- The decline and fall of the Hispanic great house -- The literary degradation of the Mexican -- The cinematic degradation of the Mexican, 1894-1947 -- Repentance -- The American as sinner-samaritan -- Four faces of the Mexican in modern popular fiction -- The Mexican in the movies, 1946-1976