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Charros : how Mexican cowboys are remapping race and American identity /
"The cowboy--in the popular imagination, no figure is more central to American identity and the nation's origin story. Yet the Americans and Europeans who settled the U.S. West learned virtually everything they knew from the indigenous and Mexican horsemen who already inhabited the region....
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | American crossroads ;
54. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Claiming state power in mid-twentieth century Los Angeles
- Building San Antonio's postwar tourist economy
- Creating multicultural public institutions in Denver and Pueblo
- Claiming suburban public space and transforming L.A.'s racial geographies
- Shaping animal welfare laws and becoming formal political subjects.