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Highlights
- 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.
- About the Author: Raúl A. Ramos is associate professor of history at the University of Houston.
- 320 Pages
- Social Science, Ethnic Studies
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About the Book
Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861Book Synopsis
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.Review Quotes
"[Ramos's] first fine book demonstrates [that] history has no conclusion; it evolves in response to our present. . . . [Ramos has] an insider's passion for local detail and an academic's instinct to set this evidence in its broadest cultural context. . . . [Ramos] reveals how deeply this revolutionary era penetrated individual lives." -- San Antonio Express News
"A thorough treatment of Tejano ethnic identity and race relations. . . . A great aid for those teaching histories of the American south-west, and a good fit as a required text for upper division and graduate seminars in Chicana/o history and the history of the West." -- Social History
"An interesting and readable contribution to the discussion of identity formation in borderlands and Texas history from a Tejano point of view." -- East Texas Historical Journal
"Clearly written and thoroughly researched . . . not only a significant addition to scholarship on Chicano/a history, immigration, and nationalism, but also a work accessible to academics and students alike." -- Canadian Journal of History
"Engaging and compelling. . . . A significant contribution to the study of race, ethnicity, and nation and deepen[s] our understanding of how Tejanos met the incredible challenges posed by manifest destiny and American economic transnationalism." -- The Journal of Southern History
"Illustrates with a vivid style the vicissitudes local elite families embarked upon as they functioned as cultural brokers between two competing national projects." -- Journal of American Ethnic History
"Impressive . . . tells a fascinating story of how the population of Texas, under a developing republic, created a tapestry of regional identities." -- Ethnohistory
"Ramos captures a community's survival through the turmoil of changes in sovereignty; from Spanish to Mexican, to Texan, to American, and then to Confederate, he traces the evolution of the Tejano identity." -- Southwestern Historical Quarterly
"Ramos perceptively notes that despite their subordinate status, Tejanos resisted the status quo and sustained a measure of political influence through the century." -- Journal of American History
"Succeeds in 'bringing contemporary insight and relevance to the study of the past' and Texas history. . . . Recommended." -- CHOICE
About the Author
Raúl A. Ramos is associate professor of history at the University of Houston.Dimensions (Overall): 9.4 Inches (H) x 6.2 Inches (W) x 1.2 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.02 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 320
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Ethnic Studies
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Theme: Hispanic American Studies
Format: Paperback
Author: Raúl a Ramos
Language: English
Street Date: March 1, 2010
TCIN: 90067395
UPC: 9780807871249
Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-0889
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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