Manifest destinies [electronic resource] : the making of the Mexican American race / Laura E. G�omez.
By: G�omez, Laura E.
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BookPublisher: New York : New York University, c2007Description: xii, 243 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Mexican Americans -- Race identity | Mexican Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc | Mexican Americans -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century | Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- History -- 19th century | Racism -- New Mexico -- History -- 19th century | United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century | New Mexico -- Race relations -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.8968/72073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-234) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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