Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century

Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century
Title Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook
Author José Angel Hernández
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 285
Release 2012-04-30
Genre History
ISBN 1107378753

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This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Mexican American history, examining Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States, following a war that resulted in the loss of half Mexico's territory. Responding to past interpretations, Jose Angel Hernández suggests that these resettlement schemes centred on developments within the frontier region, the modernisation of the country with loyal Mexican American settlers, and blocking the tide of migrations to the United States to prevent the depopulation of its fractured northern border. Through an examination of Mexico's immigration and colonisation policies as they developed in the nineteenth century, this book focuses primarily on the population of Mexican citizens who were 'lost' after the end of the Mexican American War of 1846–8 until the end of the century.

Manifest Destinies

Manifest Destinies
Title Manifest Destinies PDF eBook
Author Laura E. Gómez
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 256
Release 2008-09
Genre History
ISBN 0814732054

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Watch the Author Interview on KNME In both the historic record and the popular imagination, the story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in America has been characterized by notions of annexation rather than colonialism, of opening rather than conquering, and of settling unpopulated lands rather than displacing existing populations. Using the territory that is now New Mexico as a case study, Manifest Destinies traces the origins of Mexican Americans as a racial group in the United States, paying particular attention to shifting meanings of race and law in the nineteenth century. Laura E. Gómez explores the central paradox of Mexican American racial status as entailing the law's designation of Mexican Americans as &#;“white” and their simultaneous social position as non-white in American society. She tells a neglected story of conflict, conquest, cooperation, and competition among Mexicans, Indians, and Euro-Americans, the region’s three main populations who were the key architects and victims of the laws that dictated what one’s race was and how people would be treated by the law according to one’s race. Gómez’s path breaking work—spanning the disciplines of law, history, and sociology—reveals how the construction of Mexicans as an American racial group proved central to the larger process of restructuring the American racial order from the Mexican War (1846–48) to the early twentieth century. The emphasis on white-over-black relations during this period has obscured the significant role played by the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the colonization of northern Mexico in the racial subordination of black Americans.

Mexican American Colonization During the Nineteenth Century

Mexican American Colonization During the Nineteenth Century
Title Mexican American Colonization During the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook
Author José Angel Hernández
Publisher
Pages 266
Release 2012
Genre Mexican-American Border Region
ISBN 9781139422796

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This study examines various cases of return migration from the United States to Mexico throughout the nineteenth century.

Mexican American Colonization During the Nineteenth Century

Mexican American Colonization During the Nineteenth Century
Title Mexican American Colonization During the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook
Author José Angel Hernández
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 285
Release 2012-04-30
Genre History
ISBN 1107012392

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This study examines various cases of return migration from the United States to Mexico throughout the nineteenth century. Mexico developed a robust immigration policy after becoming an independent nation in 1821, but was unable to attract European settlers for a variety of reasons. As the United States expanded toward Mexico's northern frontiers, Mexicans in those areas now lost to the United States were subsequently seen as an ideal group to colonize and settle the fractured republic.

Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States

Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States
Title Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States PDF eBook
Author John Tutino
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 333
Release 2012-05-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0292737181

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Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration and the drug war. Placing Mexicans and Mexico in the center of American history, this volume elucidates how economic, social, and cultural legacies grounded in colonial New Spain shaped both Mexico and the United States, as well as how Mexican Americans have constructively participated in North American ways of production, politics, social relations, and cultural understandings. Combining historical, sociological, and cultural perspectives, the contributors to this volume explore the following topics: the Hispanic foundations of North American capitalism; indigenous peoples’ actions and adaptations to living between Mexico and the United States; U.S. literary constructions of a Mexican “other” during the U.S.-Mexican War and the Civil War; the Mexican cotton trade, which helped sustain the Confederacy during the Civil War; the transformation of the Arizona borderlands from a multiethnic Mexican frontier into an industrializing place of “whites” and “Mexicans”; the early-twentieth-century roles of indigenous Mexicans in organizing to demand rights for all workers; the rise of Mexican Americans to claim middle-class lives during and after World War II; and the persistence of a Mexican tradition of racial/ethnic mixing—mestizaje—as an alternative to the racial polarities so long at the center of American life.

In the Mean Time

In the Mean Time
Title In the Mean Time PDF eBook
Author Erin Murrah-Mandril
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 185
Release 2020-04-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1496211820

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The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which transferred more than a third of Mexico’s territory to the United States, deferred full U.S. citizenship for Mexican Americans but promised, “in the mean time,” to protect their property and liberty. Erin Murrah-Mandril demonstrates that the U.S. government deployed a colonization of time in the Southwest to insure political and economic underdevelopment in the region and to justify excluding Mexican Americans from narratives of U.S. progress. In In the Mean Time, Murrah-Mandril contends that Mexican American authors challenged modern conceptions of empty, homogenous, linear, and progressive time to contest U.S. colonization. Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial theories, Murrah-Mandril argues that time, like space, is a socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the Southwest. In the Mean Time draws on literature, autobiography, political documents, and historical narratives composed between 1870 and 1940 to examine the way U.S. colonization altered time in the borderlands. Rather than reinforce the colonial time structure, early Mexican American authors exploited the internal contradictions of Manifest Destiny and U.S. progress to resist domination and situate themselves within the shifting political, economic, and historical present. Read as decolonial narratives, the Mexican American cultural productions examined in this book also offer a new way of understanding Latina/o literary history.

Mexican American Colonization During the Nineteenth Century

Mexican American Colonization During the Nineteenth Century
Title Mexican American Colonization During the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook
Author José Angel Hernández
Publisher
Pages 286
Release 2014-05-14
Genre Mexican-American Border Region
ISBN 9781139423861

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This study examines various cases of return migration from the United States to Mexico throughout the nineteenth century.