Beyond the Alamo : forging Mexican ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 /

Beyond the Alamo : forging Mexican ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 /

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Author / Creator:Ramos, Raúl A.
Imprint: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.
Description:1 online resource ( xvi, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Subject:
Mexican Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History -- 19th century.
Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Texas -- San Antonio.
Ethnic relations.
Mexican Americans.
Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation.
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity.
San Antonio (Tex.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.
San Antonio (Tex.) -- History -- 19th century.
Texas -- San Antonio.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11220632
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ISBN:9780807888933
0807888931
9781469604657
1469604655
9780807832073
0807832073
9780807871249
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Restrictions unspecified
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 19, 2020).
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.
Other form:Print version: Ramos, Raúl A. Beyond the Alamo. 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 9780807832073
Table of 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.

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