Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986“A benchmark publication . . . A meticulously documented work that provides an alternative interpretation and revisionist view of Mexican-Anglo relations.” –IMR (International Migration Review) Winner, Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians American Historical Association, Pacific Branch Book Award Texas Institute of Letters Friends of The Dallas Public Library Award Texas Historical Commission T. R. Fehrenbach Award, Best Ethnic, Minority, and Women’s History Publication Here is a different kind of history, an interpretive history that outlines the connections between the past and the present while maintaining a focus on Mexican-Anglo relations. This book reconstructs a history of Mexican-Anglo relations in Texas “since the Alamo,” while asking this history some sociology questions about ethnicity, social change, and society itself. In one sense, it can be described as a southwestern history about nation building, economic development, and ethnic relations. In a more comparative manner, the history points to the familiar experience of conflict and accommodation between distinct societies and peoples throughout the world. Organized to describe the sequence of class orders and the corresponding change in Mexican-Anglo relations, it is divided into four periods, which are referred to as incorporation, reconstruction, segregation, and integration. “The success of this award-winning book is in its honesty, scholarly objectivity, and daring, in the sense that it debunks the old Texas nationalism that sought to create anti-Mexican attitudes both in Texas and the Greater Southwest.” —Colonial Latin American Historical Review “An outstanding contribution to U.S. Southwest studies, Chicano history, and race relations . . . A seminal book.” –Hispanic American Historical Review |
Contents
PART ONE Incorporation 18361900 | 13 |
The Republic of Texas 1836 | 17 |
Ice Cold Beer and Law West of the Pecos Langtry | 21 |
Tables | 40 |
Agents for Large Tracts of Desirable Land 1893 | 45 |
Mexican Sheep Shearers near Fort McKavett 1892 | 93 |
PART TWO Reconstruction 19001920 ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Cowboy Recruits for Service against Bandits 1915 | 120 |
The Culture of Segregation | 220 |
The Geography of Race and Class | 235 |
Selected Characteristics of South Texas 1930 | 247 |
Unpaid Family Farm Labor in South Texas 1930 | 250 |
PART FOUR Integration 19401986 | 257 |
Modern School in Mathis 1954 | 267 |
Texas House Redistricting 19511967 | 278 |
A Time of Inclusion | 288 |
Pryor Ranch Prospectus ca 1915 | 137 |
Joy Ride on TexMex Border Rio Grande City 1915 | 153 |
PART THREE Segregation 19201940 | 157 |
Mexican Cotton Pickers House 1929 | 166 |
Farmers and Laborers in South Texas Farm Zones 1930 | 173 |
A Web of Labor Controls | 214 |
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