Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861

by Raúl A. Ramos

Overview

Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raul Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. Ramos explores the factors that helped shape the ethnic identity of the Tejano population, including cross-cultural contacts between Bexarenos, indigenous groups, and Anglo-Americans, as they negotiated the contingencies and pressures on the frontier of competing empires.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807888933
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	11/30/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Raul A. Ramos is assistant professor of history at the University of Houston.

Editorial Reviews

"Raúl Ramos makes an important contribution to the growing body of historical studies concerned with how the Mexican heritage population of the American Southwest met the challenges of Anglo-American ascendancy in the decades before the American Civil War."—Jesús F. de la Teja, State Historian of Texas, author of San Antonio de Béxar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier

"Ramos's approach to the histories of Texas, Mexico, the Borderlands, and the United States, as well as his ability to engage with, speak to, and cross between these fields, is refreshing and thought provoking. He uses the tools of these varying fields to recast the origins of Texas and bring to light the importance and intersection of race, nation, identity, and ethnicity, rendering them fluid categories rather than impenetrable, set notions that are fixed in time and space."—Ernesto Chávez, University of Texas at El Paso

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