Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807871249)

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.

Author: Ra伃 a. Ramos
ISBN-10: 0807871249
ISBN-13: 9780807871249
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2010
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.20d