The contested homeland : a Chicano history of New Mexico / [edited by] Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and David R. Maciel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maciel, David (Professor emeritus)

Gonzales-Berry, Erlinda, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--New Mexico--History.

Mexican Americans.

Ethnic relations.

History.

New Mexico--History--1848-.

New Mexico.

New Mexico--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

x, 314 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2000]

Summary:

Many books deal with New Mexico's past, but the twelve original essays here reinterpret that history for the first time from a Chicano perspective. Self-determination, resistance, and cultural maintenance are the recurring themes in the lives and struggles of Nuevomexicanos from 1848 to the present. The conflict has been not solely with the customs and institutions Anglos introduced -- though certainly that has occurred. On a more fundamental level, the clash has been over modernization -- how the Spanish language, folk traditions, and land grants can survive as a heritage for future generations amid English, new and secular values, and real estate booms and speculation.

Nuevomexicanos have confronted colonialism, ethnocentrism, and racism throughout their history. But as these essays make clear, pride in Spanish descent runs deep in New Mexico and has led to a vibrancy unmatched in any other region in the United States. Nuevomexicanos have not simply survived or endured. They have secured their influence through the highest level of education among all Chicanos in the United States, through greater political representation at the local and national level -- and in both major parties -- than in any other state, and through a culture that has simultancously resisted and adapted to change.

Contents:

The nineteenth century: overview / David R. Maciel and Erlinda Gonzales-Berry

New Mexico resistance to U.S. occupation during the Mexican American War of 1846-1848 / Carlos R. Herrera

The return to Mexico: the relocation of New Mexican families to Chihuahua and the confirmation of a frontier region, 1848-1854 / Martín González de la Vara

The peoples movement: las gorras blancas / Anselmo Arellano

The twentieth century: overview / David R. Maciel and Erlinda Gonzales-Berry

Spanish American ethnic identity and New Mexico's statehood struggle / John Nieto-Phillips

Nuevo Mexico by any other name: creating a state from an ancestral homeland / Gabriel Meléndez

Which language will our children speak?: the Spanish language and public education policy in New Mexico, 1890-1930 / Erlinda Gonzales-Berry

The political development of New Mexico Hispanas / Maurilio Vigil

The forgotten diaspora: Mexican immigration to New Mexico / María Rosa García-Acevedo

La Plaza Vieja (Old Town Alburquerque): the transformation of an Hispano village, 1880s-1950s / Benny J. Andrés, Jr.

La reconquista: the Chicano movement in New Mexico / David R. Maciel and Juan José Peña.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826321984

0826321992

OCLC:

42476794