Recovering History, Constructing Race By: Martha Menchaca Publisher: University Of Texas Press Print ISBN: 9780292752535, 0292752539 eText ISBN: 9780292778481, 0292778481 Copyright year: 2002 Format: EPUB Available from $ 27.95 USD SKU: 9780292778481 The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races—Indian, White, and Black. This racial history underlies a legacy of racial discrimination against Mexican Americans and their Mexican ancestors that stretches from the Spanish conquest to current battles over ending affirmative action and other assistance programs for ethnic minorities. Asserting the centrality of race in Mexican American history, Martha Menchaca here offers the first interpretive racial history of Mexican Americans, focusing on racial foundations and race relations from prehispanic times to the present.Menchaca uses the concept of racialization to describe the process through which Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. authorities constructed racial status hierarchies that marginalized Mexicans of color and restricted their rights of land ownership. She traces this process from the Spanish colonial period and the introduction of slavery through racial laws affecting Mexican Americans into the late twentieth-century. This re-viewing of familiar history through the lens of race recovers Blacks as important historical actors, links Indians and the mission system in the Southwest to the Mexican American present, and reveals the legal and illegal means by which Mexican Americans lost their land grants. Additional ISBNs 9780292752542, 0292752547 SKU: 9780292752535 Ebooks here: https://ebookscoffee.sellpass.io/products/Recovering-History-Constructing-Race
