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Manifest destinies : the making of the Mexican American race /

An essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americans--the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The war abr...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Gómez, Laura E., 1964- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Édition:Second edition.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The U.S. colonization of northern Mexico and the creation of Mexican Americans
  • Where Mexicans fit in the new American racial order
  • How a fragile claim to whiteness shaped Mexican Americans' relations with Indians and African Americans
  • Manifest destiny's legacy: race in America at the turn of the twentieth century.