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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Menchaca, Martha
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Racism > United States > History.
Racially mixed people > United States > History.
Mexican Americans > History.
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans > Race identity.
Mexico > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Mexico.
United States > Ethnic relations.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Racial Foundations
  • 2. Racial Formation: Spain's Racial Order
  • 3. The Move North: The Gran Chichimeca and
  • New Mexico
  • 4. The Spanish Settlement of Texas and Arizona
  • 5. The Settlement of California and the Twilight of
  • the Spanish Period
  • 6. Liberal Racial Legislation during the Mexican Period,
  • I82I-I848
  • 7. Land, Race, and War, I82I-I848
  • 8. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Racialization
  • of the Mexican Population
  • 9. Racial Segregation and Liberal Policies Then and Now
  • Epilogue: Auto/ethnographic Observations of Race
  • and History
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.