Manifest Destinies, Second Edition: The Making of the Mexican American Race

Manifest Destinies is an essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States.

This is the history of the original Mexican Americans—the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The war abruptly came to an end two years later, and 115,000 Mexicans became American citizens overnight. Yet their status as full-fledged Americans was tenuous at best. Due to a variety of legal a...