Foreigners in Their Native Land

by Weber, David J.

• ISBN13: 9780826335104
• ISBN10: 0826335101
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Most writing about Mexican Americans deals only with the twentieth century. This book provides the much-needed historical perspective that is essential for a full understanding of the present. Dozens of selections from firsthand accounts, introduced by David J Weber's essays, capture the essence of the Mexican-American experience in the Southwest from the time the first pioneers came north from Mexico. PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: The first edition was selected as a Choice 'Outstanding Academic Book of the Year' and received the following accolades: "An excellent job of illuminating the early historical experience of Mexicans living in the United States..." -- Western Historical Quarterly. "Weber... has done more than compile a first-rate anthology... he has done much to put the selected accounts into a meaningful historical framework. This coupled with excellent documentary choices and extensive notes makes it the single best volume for understanding the Mexican American experience in the nineteenth-century Southwest..." -- Choice.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition	vii
by Arnoldo De Leon
Foreword to the First Edition	xvii
by Ramon Eduardo Ruiz
Acknowledgments	xx
Introduction	1	(10)
I. New Spain's Far Northern Frontier	11	(40)
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION	12	(11)
SOURCES
1. Church and State
Luis de Velasco, 1595	23	(2)
2. Frontier Military
Antonio Martínez, 1817	25	(2)
3. "Contributions are small"
Francisco Martínez de Baeza, 1639	27	(3)
4. A Communal Land Grant
Lorenzo Marquis & Antonio José Ortiz, 1794	30	(3)
5. Mestizaje
First Los Angeles Census, 1781	33	(3)
6. "Most hardy subjects"
Zebulon M. Pike, 1807, Miguel Ramos de Arizpe, 1812	36	(2)
7. "There were no paupers"
José Agustín de Escudero, 1827	38	(1)
8. "Backward" New Mexico
Pedro Bautista Pino, 1812	39	(4)
9. The "wretched village" of San Antonio
Juan Agustín Morfi, 1778,Guadalupe Vallejo, 1890	43	(2)
10. The Romantic Frontier
George Wharton James, 1914	45	(6)
II. Yankee Infiltration and the Hardening of Stereotypes	51	(36)
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION	52	(10)
SOURCES
1."Calculating the profit"
Carlos Dehault Delassus, 1804	62	(2)
2."Indications are very dangerous"
Joaquín del Real Alencaster, 1807	64	(1)
3.California "would fall without an effort"
William Shaler, 1808	65	(3)
4. The Black Legend
William Robertson, 1777	68	(3)
5."Degenerate inhabitants of New Mexico"
Rufus B. Sage, 1846	71	(4)
6. "Blood. . .as ditch water"
Walter Prescott Webb, 1931 & 1935	75	(3)
7. "An ill opinion of the Mexicans"
José María Sánchez, 1828	78
8. "Lazy people of vicious character"
Jóse María Sánchez, 1828	81	(2)
9. "Industrious, honest North American settlers"
Ayuntamiento of San Antonio, 1832	83	(2)
10. "Waiting the result"
Thomas O. Larkin, 1846	85	(2)
III. Cultures Collide	87	(52)
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION	88	(13)
SOURCES Manuel Mier y Terán, 1828 & 1829	101	(1)
1. "I am warning you"
Manuel Mier y Terán, 1828 & 1829	101	(4)
2. The two people cannot mingle together"
Committee of Vigilance & Public, Safety, San Augustin, 1835	105	(4)
3. "Their decision irrevocably sealed their fate"
Antonio López de Santa Anna, 1837	109	(2)
4. "Texians! Render every possible assistance"
Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, 1836	111	(3)
5. "War. . .our final "salvation"
José María Tornel y Mendívil, 1837	114	(3)
6. "The sacrificial goat
Pío Pico, 1846-48	117	(4)
7. "We would have made some kind of resistance"
105 New Mexicans, 1846	121	(4)
8. "Keep yourselves quiet"
Donaciano Vigil, 1847	125	(2)
9. Reactions to Defeat
Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid, 1846, Juan Bautista Alvarado, 1876 Angustias de la Guerra Ord, 1878,	127	(5)
10. "A duty before God"
William P. Rogers, 1846, Robert F. Stockton, 1847	132	(3)
11. "The Government of a white race"
John C. Calhoun, 1848	135	(4)
IV. All the Rights of Citizens	139	(64)
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION	140	(21)
SOURCES
1."Their property, their persons, their religion"
Stephen Watts Kearny, 1846	161	(1)
2."All the rights of citizens"
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848	162	(7)
3. "For me the placers were finished"
Antonio F. Coronel, 1849	169	(5)
4. "Hung as suspects"
El Clamor Público, 1857	174	(3)
5. "A foreigner in my native land"
Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, 1858	177	(5)
6. "No justice for the Mexicans in Texas"
Comisión Pesquisadora, 1873	182	(5)
7. "A set policy of terrorizing the Mexicans"
A Texas Ranger, 1875	187	(4)
8. "Parceled out to Mexicans"
Tucson Citizen, 1904	191	(4)
9. "Compelled to sell, little by little"
Antonio María Pico, et al., 1859	195	(5)
10. "A denial of justice"
Public Land Commission, 1880	200	(3)
V. Accommodation, Assimilation, and Resistance	203	(58)
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION	204	(22)
SOURCES
1. "Revenge took possession of me"
Tiburcio Vásquez, 1874, Joaquín Murrieta, 1854	226	(5)
2. "To defend ourselves"
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, 1859	231	(3)
3. Las Gorras Blancas
Nuestra Plataforma, 1890, Felix Martínez, 1890	234	(4)
4. "In sympathy
N.A. Jennings, c.1875	238	(3)
5. "Volunteers, both Mexicans and Americans"
Juan I. Téllez, 1926	241	(4)
6. "Now or never"
La Voz del Pueblo, 1906, Constitution of New Mexico, 1912	245	(3)
7. "Por la raza y para la raza"
Congreso Mexicanista, 1911	248	(3)
8. A Sample from the Press
El Labrador, 1904	251	(4)
9. Workers from Mexico: Three Views
Mexican: Diario del Hogar, 1910, Anglo American: Samuel Bryan, 1912, Mexican American: El Labrador, 1904	255	(6)
Afterword	261	(4)
Afterword to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition	265	(6)
Notes	271	(16)
Index	287