Manifest destinies : the making of the Mexican American race /

Manifest destinies : the making of the Mexican American race /

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An essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americans--the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The war abr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gómez, Laura E., 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1800-1899
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 century.
History.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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