Beyond the Alamo

by Ramos, Ral A.

• ISBN13: 9780807871249
• ISBN10: 0807871249
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Rauacute;l 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 Bexarentilde;os, indigenous groups, and Anglo-Americans, as they negotiated the contingencies and pressures on the frontier of competing empires.

Author Biography

Ral A. Ramos is associate professor of history at the University of Houston.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Forging Identity in the Borderlands: Situating San Antonio de Béxar	p. 1
Prologue: Life in a Norteño Town	p. 15
Three Worlds in l821
Making Mexico: Insurgency and Social Order in Béxar	p. 27
Indigenous Identities: Locating "lo Indio" in the Tejano World	p. 53
American Immigrants: Colonization and Tejano Identity	p. 81
Becoming Tejano
Disrupting the Balance: Colonization Troubles, 1828-1834	p. 111
La Pérdida de Tejas: Tejanos and the War of Texas Secession, 1834-1837	p. 133
Tejanos as a Suspect Class: The End of Secession, 1837-1848	p. 167
Voting and Violence: Tejanos and Ethnic Politics, 1848-1861	p. 205
Conclusion Challenging Identities: Transnational Becomes Local	p. 231
Notes	p. 239
Index	p. 281
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