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Author Ramos, Raúl A.

Title Beyond the Alamo : forging Mexican ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 / Raúl A. Ramos
Published Chapel Hill : Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource ( xvi, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Forging Identity in the Borderlands: Situating San Antonio de Béxar; PROLOGUE: Life in a Norteño Town; PART I. TREE WORLDS IN 1821; 1. Making Mexico: Insurgency and Social Order in Béxar; 2. Indigenous Identities: Locating "lo Indio" in the Tejano World; 3. American Immigrants: Colonization and Tejano Identity; PART II. BECOMING TEJANO; 4. Disrupting the Balance: Colonization Troubles, 1828-1834; 5. La Pérdida de Tejas: Tejanos and the War of Texas Secession, 1834-1837; 6. Tejanos as a Suspect Class: The End of Secession, 1837-1848; 7. Voting and violence: Tejanos and ethnic politics, 1848-1861; Conclusion: Challenging identities: Transnational becomes local
Summary Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, 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 Bexareños, indigenous groups, and Anglo-Americans, as they negotiated the contingencies and pressures on the frontier of competing empires
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mexican Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Ethnic identity
Mexican Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History -- 19th century
Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Texas -- San Antonio
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Ethnic relations
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity
SUBJECT San Antonio (Tex.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
San Antonio (Tex.) -- History -- 19th century
Subject Texas -- San Antonio
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007044845
ISBN 9780807888933
0807888931
9781469604657
1469604655