Manifest Destinies, Second Edition: The Making of the Mexican American Race
- ISBN-10
- 1479894281
- ISBN-13
- 9781479894284
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 313
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-02-06
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Author
- Laura E. Gómez
Description
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
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