Recovering history, constructing race : the Indian, black, and white roots of Mexican Americans /
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| Author / Creator: | Menchaca, Martha. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001. |
| Description: | xi, 375 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4546665 |
| Summary: | The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races - Indian, White and Black. This racial history underlies a legacy of racial discrimination against Mexican Americans and their Mexican ancestors that stretches from the Spanish conquest to current battles over ending affirmative action and other assistance programmes for ethnic minorities. Asserting the centrality of race in Mexican American history, Martha Menchaca here offers an interpretative racial history of Mexican Americans, focusing on racial foundations and race relations from pre-Hispanic times to the present. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 375 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-365) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0292752539 (cloth : alk. paper) 0292752547 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
