Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986

by David Montejano

Overview

Winner, Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization Of American Historians, 1988
American Historical Association, Pacific Branch Book Award, 1989
Texas Institute of Letters Friends Of The Dallas Public Library Award, 1987
Texas Historical Commission T. R. Fehrenbach Award, Best Ethnic, Minority, And Women's History Publication, 1987

A major work on the history of Mexicans in Texas and the relations between Mexicans and Anglos.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292775961
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	08/01/1987
Edition description:	1ST ED.
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

David Montejano, a native San Antonian, is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His fields of specialization include community studies, historical and political sociology, and race and ethnic relations. He is the author of the award-winning Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 and the editor of Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• Part One. Incorporation, 1836-1900
  • 2. The Rivalship of Peace
  • 3. Cattle, Land, and Markets
  • 4. Race, Labor, and the Frontier
• Part Two. Reconstruction, 1900-1920
  • 5. The Coming of the Commercial Farmers
  • 6. The Politics of Reconstruction
• Part Three. Segregation, 1920-1940
  • 7. The Structure of the New Order
  • 8. The Mexican Problem
  • 9. The Web of Labor Controls
  • 10. The Culture of Segregation
  • 11. The Geography of Race and Class
• Part Four. Integration, 1940-1986
  • 12. The Demise of "Jim Crow"
  • 13. A Time of Inclusion
• Appendix. On Interpreting Southwestern History
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

What People are Saying About This

University of Texas at Austin Gilberto Cardenas

"...a major revisionist work of the history of Mexicans in Texas.... the most important race-class analysis of the Chicano experience."

Angelo State University Arnoldo De León

"...an exciting work that should win major reviews for its originality."

Arnoldo De León

"...an exciting work that should win major reviews for its originality."

Gilberto Cardenas

"...a major revisionist work of the history of Mexicans in Texas.... the most important race-class analysis of the Chicano experience."

Editorial Reviews

"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.... Montejano's general model will certainly provide useful approaches to the study of other regions and race relations settings. This is a seminal book that should be required reading for both specialists and general readers interested in the themes analyzed so aptly by David Montejano."

Hispanic American Historical Review