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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: De León, Arnoldo, 1945- They called them greasers. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1983 (OCoLC)561373136 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Arnoldo De León |
ISBN: | 0292703635 9780292703636 0292780540 9780292780545 |
OCLC Number: | 9197181 |
Awards: | Kate Broocks Bates Award entry. |
Description: | xii, 153 pages : map ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 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." |
Responsibility: | by Arnoldo De León. |
More information: | |
Local System Bib Number: | 1610475867688_622584 991000221539705351 |
Abstract:
This seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas.
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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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by timnelso updated 2013-09-27