A historical overview of Mexican Americans' social and economic
experiences in Texas For hundreds of years, Mexican Americans in
Texas have fought against political oppression and exclusion--in
courtrooms, in schools, at the ballot box, and beyond. Through a
detailed exploration of this long battle for equality, this book
illuminates critical moments of both struggle and triumph in the
Mexican American experience. Martha Menchaca begins with the
Spanish settlement of Texas, exploring how Mexican Americans'
racial heritage limited their incorporation into society after the
territory's annexation. She then illustrates their political
struggles in the nineteenth century as they tried to assert their
legal rights of citizenship and retain possession of their land,
and goes on to explore their fight, in the twentieth century,
against educational segregation, jury exclusion, and housing
covenants. It was only in 1967, she shows, that the collective
pressure placed on the state government by Mexican American and
African American activists led to the beginning of desegregation.
Menchaca concludes with a look at the crucial roles that Mexican
Americans have played in national politics, education,
philanthropy, and culture, while acknowledging the important work
remaining to be done in the struggle for equality.
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