Beyond the Alamo
Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861| By: | Raúl A. Ramos |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780807832073 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780807888933 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raúl 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 Bexareños, indigenous groups, and Anglo-Americans, as they negotiated the contingencies and pressures on the frontier of competing empires.