{"product_id":"recovering-history-constructing-race-martha-menchaca-9780292752542","title":"Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book, 2002\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMenchaca 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martha Menchaca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292752547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292752542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.34w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2002 pg. 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2002 pg. 2026","brand":"Martha Menchaca","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993943146751,"sku":"9780292752542","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_074265b7-acdf-4b79-8bff-8edcfcd08b46.jpg?v=1683327196","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/recovering-history-constructing-race-martha-menchaca-9780292752542","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}