Recovering history, constructing race : the Indian, Black, and white roots of Mexican Americans / by Martha Menchaca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menchaca, Martha.

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.

The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--History.

Mexican Americans--Race identity.

Multiracial people--United States--History.

Multiracial people.

Racism--United States--History.

Racism.

Mexico--Relations--United States.

Mexico.

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

United States--Relations--Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races - Indian, White and Black. This racial history underlies a legacy of racial discrimination against Mexican Americans and their Mexican ancestors that stretches from the Spanish conquest to current battles over ending affirmative action and other assistance programmes for ethnic minorities. Asserting the centrality of race in Mexican American history, Martha Menchaca here offers an interpretative racial history of Mexican Americans, focusing on racial foundations and race relations from pre-Hispanic times to the present.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-365) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79877-6

OCLC:

55670450