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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: De León, Arnoldo, 1945- They called them greasers. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1983 (DLC) 82024850 (OCoLC)9197181 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Arnoldo De León |
ISBN: | 9780292756229 0292756224 |
DOI: | 10.7560/703636 |
OCLC Number: | 561373136 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 153 pages) : map |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Preface; A Note on Terminology; 1. Initial Contacts: Redeeming Texas from Mexicans, 1821-1836; 2. Niggers, Redskins, and Greasers: Tejano Mixed-Bloods in a White Racial State; 3. An Indolent People; 4. Defective Morality; 5. Disloyalty and Subversion; 6. Leyendas Negras; 7 . Frontier Democracy and Tejanos-the Antebellum Period; 8. Frontier Democracy and Tejanos-the Postbellum Period; 9. Epilogue: Not the White Man's Equal -- Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
Responsibility: | by Arnoldo De León. |
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This well-written, comprehensive account of Anglo-American stereotypes of Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas makes for interesting reading. . . . As the author notes, the heritage of the past still persists. Mexican Americans in Texas are no longer lynched, but they continue to be 'victims of psychological violence in the more subtle form of discrimination.' * American Studies * Read more...
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- Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century.
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- Texas -- Race relations.
- Américains d'origine mexicaine -- Texas -- Opinion publique -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
- Texas -- Relations raciales.
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- Mexican Americans -- Public opinion.
- Public opinion.
- Race relations.
- Texas.
- Mexicaanse Amerikanen.