Manifest destinies
Subtitle: the making of the Mexican American race
By: Laura E. Gómez.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780814732052
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Race identity; Mexican Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc; Mexican Americans -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century; Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- History -- 19th century; Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Racism -- New Mexico -- History -- 19th century; Racially mixed people -- United States -- History; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century; New Mexico -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: The U.S. colonization of Northern Mexico and the creation of Mexican Americans; title: Where Mexicans fit in the new American racial order; title: How a fragile claim to whiteness shaped Mexican Americans' relations with Indians and African Americans; title: Manifest Destiny's legacy : race in America at the turn of the twentieth century.