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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Gómez presents a history of the racialization of Mexican Americans in the post Mexican American war period. In this work, she argues that the social perception of Mexican Americans as non white does not always match their legal status as a white group. Gómez displays the material consequences of this perspective, specifically in New Mexico but also briefly looks at Texas, Arizona, California and other places. She concludes this work with a Postscript that shows modern day censuses and identity issues that took place after the period she studied for this book. Overall, this is a fantastic work to understand this piece of social history, and a fantastic read for anyone interested in the subject. ( ) A somewhat straightforward primer on Mexican American history - some of her terminology ("race" vs "ethnicity" is a big one) is a bit muddled and remains unclear for most of the text but overall it's a good start for anyone interested in this topic specifically (though for very good reasons she sticks only to what was known as the New Mexico territory, outside of California and Texas), or in American race relations history in general. Because she somewhat elides her differentiations between race and ethnicity I'm not sure that her opening claim - setting out to convince us that Mexican = race, and not ethnicity - really holds water until the epilogue when she discusses it in terms of census purposes. Still, she does a good job of showing how race is ultimately performative and how whiteness is as unstable and transitive a category as any other markers of identity. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
An essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americans--the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The war abruptly came to an end two years later, and 115,000 Mexicans became American citizens overnight. Yet their status as full-fledged Americans was tenuous at best. Due to a variety of legal and political maneuvers, Mexican Americans were largely confined to a second class status. How did this categorization occur, and what are the implications for modern Mexican Americans? Manifest Destinies fills a gap in American racial history by linking westward expansion to slavery and the Civil War. In so doing, Laura E Gómez demonstrates how white supremacy structured a racial hierarchy in which Mexican Americans were situated relative to Native Americans and African Americans alike. Steeped in conversations and debates surrounding the social construction of race, this book reveals how certain groups become racialized, and how racial categories can not only change instantly, but also the ways in which they change over time. This new edition is updated to reflect the most recent evidence regarding the ways in which Mexican Americans and other Latinos were racialized in both the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book ultimately concludes that it is problematic to continue to speak in terms Hispanic "ethnicity" rather than consider Latinos qua Latinos alongside the United States' other major racial groupings. A must read for anyone concerned with racial injustice and classification today. Listen to Laura Gómez's interviews on The Brian Lehrer Show, Wisconsin Public Radio, Texas Public Radio, and KRWG. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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