Manifest destinies the making of the Mexican American race / [electronic resource] :
Laura E. Gómez.
- New York : New York University, c2007.
- xii, 243 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-234) and index.
The U.S. colonization of northern Mexico and the creation of Mexican Americans -- Where Mexicans fit in the new American racial order -- How a fragile claim to whiteness shaped Mexican Americans' relations with Indians and African Americans -- Manifest destiny's legacy : race in America at the turn of the twentieth century.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.