Recovering History, Constructing Race - The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans

List of contents

• 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, 1821-1848
• 7. Land, Race, and War, 1821-1848
• 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

About the author

By Martha Menchaca

Product details

• Authors: Martha Menchaca
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9780292752542
• ISBN: 978-0-292-75254-2
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 232 mm x 157 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 546 g
• Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long; Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous