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Recovering history, constructing race : the Indian, black, and white roots of Mexican Americans /

"In this book it is my intent to write about the Mexican American people's Indian, White, and Black racial history. In doing so, I offer an interpretive historical analysis of the experiences of the Mexican Americans' ancestors in Mexico and the United States. This analysis begins wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Menchaca, Martha
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Racial foundations
  • Racial formation: Spain's racial order
  • The move north: the Gran Chichimecca and New Mexico
  • The Spanish settlement of Texas and Arizona
  • The settlement of California and the twilight of the Spanish period
  • Liberal racial legislation during the Mexican period, 1821-1848
  • Land, race, and war, 1821-1848
  • The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the racialization of the Mexican population
  • Racial segregation and liberal policies then and now.