Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861

ISBN-13: 9780807871249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str.

Raul A. Ramos

Opis

Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raul Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. Ramos explores the factors that helped shape the ethnic identity of the Tejano population, including cross-cultural contacts between Bexarenos, indigenous groups, and Anglo-Americans, as they negotiated the contingencies and pressures on the frontier of competing empires.