Beyond the Alamo

Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861

• Author(s): Raúl A. Ramos,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 320
• ISBN_10: 0807888931
  ISBN_13: 9780807888933
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies ,

Description:... Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raul 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 Bexarenos, indigenous groups, and Anglo-Americans, as they negotiated the contingencies and pressures on the frontier of competing empires.