Manifest destinies : the making of the Mexican American race / Laura E. Gómez.
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TextPublication details: New York : New York University, c2007.Description: xii, 243 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780814731741 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814731740 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Mexican Americans -- Race identity
- Mexican Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Mexican Americans -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century
- Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- History -- 19th century
- Racism -- New Mexico -- History -- 19th century
- New Mexico -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- E184.M5 G625 2007
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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.