Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio,

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

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.

Country	USA
Brand	University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer	The University of North Carolina Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	16 illustrations, 4 tables, 2 figures, 1
ReleaseDate	2010-03-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780807871249

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