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Recovering History, Constructing Race - The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R780
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Recovering History, Constructing Race - The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans (Paperback, New): Martha...

Recovering History, Constructing Race - The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans (Paperback, New)

Martha Menchaca

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"Menchaca has accomplished an unprecedented tour de force in this sweeping historical overview and interpretation of the racial formation and racial history of Mexican Americans." -- Antonia I. Castan eda, Associate Professor of History, St. Mary's University

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 programs for ethnic minorities. Asserting the centrality of race in Mexican American history, Martha Menchaca here offers the first interpretive racial history of Mexican Americans, focusing on racial foundations and race relations from prehispanic times to the present.

Menchaca uses the concept of racialization to describe the process through which Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. authorities constructed racial status hierarchies that marginalized Mexicans of color and restricted their rights of land ownership. She traces this process from the Spanish colonial period and the introduction of slavery through racial laws affecting Mexican Americans into the late twentieth-century. This re-viewing of familiar history through the lens of race recovers Blacks as important historical actors, links Indians and the mission system in the Southwest to the Mexican American present, and reveals the legal and illegal means by which Mexican Americans lost their land grants.

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Imprint: University Of Texas Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2002
First published: 2002
Authors: Martha Menchaca
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 392
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-75254-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-292-75254-7
Barcode: 9780292752542

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