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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814732054
ISBN-13
9780814732052
eBay Product ID (ePID)
122389232
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Manifest Destinies : the Making of the Mexican American Race
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Subject
Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations, United States / 19th Century, Legal History
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
"Gomez has made a fine and distinctive contribution to our understanding of how conquest and law shaped the ambiguous racial position still occupied by Mexican Americans." -American Historical Review, In this provocative analysis, the sociologist and legal scholar Laura E. Gómez offers a compelling argument for the unique racial status of Mexican Americans, significant (and increasing) proportions of whom identify as nonwhite her steady focus and original approach make Manifest Destinies essential reading for scholars of race in America., "Laura E. Gómez's Manifest Destinies offers a new interpretation of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and how that ideology worked to create a Mexican American race in New Mexico." - Hispanic American Historical Review ,, "Gomez has made a fine and distinctive contribution to our understanding of how conquest and law shaped the ambiguous racial position still occupied by Mexican Americans." - American Historical Review ,, Shows the impacts (then, as now) of the dominant white racist frame coming in from outside what was once northern Mexico., "In this provocative analysis, the sociologist and legal scholar Laura E. Gmez offers a compelling argument for the unique racial status of Mexican Americans, significant (and increasing) proportions of whom identify as nonwhite... her steady focus and original approach make Manifest Destinies essential reading for scholars of race in America." - Journal of American History, In her discussion of the role of law in the creation of Mexican Americans as a racial group Gómez tells a convincing story of conquerors manipulating the conquered., "In this provocative analysis, the sociologist and legal scholar Laura E. Gómez offers a compelling argument for the unique racial status of Mexican Americans, significant (and increasing) proportions of whom identify as nonwhitee her steady focus and original approach make Manifest Destinies essential reading for scholars of race in America." - Journal of American History ,, "[A]n interesting and comprehensive look at what New Mexicans really lost after being conquered by the United States." -The Albuquerque Journal, "In this provocative analysis, the sociologist and legal scholar Laura E. Gómez offers a compelling argument for the unique racial status of Mexican Americans, significant (and increasing) proportions of whom identify as nonwhite... her steady focus and original approach make Manifest Destinies essential reading for scholars of race in America." - Journal of American History, Gomez has made a fine and distinctive contribution to our understanding of how conquest and law shaped the ambiguous racial position still occupied by Mexican Americans, "Gomez has made a fine and distinctive contribution to our understanding of how conquest and law shaped the ambiguous racial position still occupied by Mexican Americans." - American Historical Review, In this provocative analysis, the sociologist and legal scholar Laura E. Gómez offers a compelling argument for the unique racial status of Mexican Americans, significant (and increasing) proportions of whom identify as nonwhite... her steady focus and original approach make Manifest Destinies essential reading for scholars of race in America., "In her discussion of the role of law in the creation of Mexican Americans as a racial group Gómez tells a convincing story of conquerors manipulating the conquered." -The Santa Fe New Mexican, "In her discussion of the role of law in the creation of Mexican Americans as a racial group Gmez tells a convincing story of conquerors manipulating the conquered." - The Santa Fe New Mexican, "Shows the impacts (then, as now) of the dominant white racist frame coming in from outside what was once northern Mexico." -Racism Review, Laura E. Gómez's Manifest Destinies offers a new interpretation of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and how that ideology worked to create a Mexican American race in New Mexico., The question of whether Mexican Americans constitute a separate race might at first seem to be an internal debate within the group. Laura E. Gomez's groundbreaking examination of racial dynamics in New Mexico makes the strong case that understanding this question reveals a pivotal chapter in the history of race and racial difference in Americans... The strength of Manifest Destinies lies in Gomez's elegantly written narrative that combines legal analysis with social and historical detail. The book destabilizes myths and preconceived attitudes about American expansion and colonization into the Mexican north... Manifest Destinies accomplishes the rare feat of combining disparate historical narratives and engaging several debates while making a meaningful impact on all of them., "Laura E. Gómez's Manifest Destinies offers a new interpretation of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and how that ideology worked to create a Mexican American race in New Mexico." - Hispanic American Historical Review, "In this provocative analysis, the sociologist and legal scholar Laura E. Gómez offers a compelling argument for the unique racial status of Mexican Americans, significant (and increasing) proportions of whom identify as nonwhite... her steady focus and original approach make Manifest Destinies essential reading for scholars of race in America." - Journal of American History ,, "In this provocative analysis, the sociologist and legal scholar Laura E. Gomez offers a compelling argument for the unique racial status of Mexican Americans, significant (and increasing) proportions of whom identify as nonwhite... her steady focus and original approach make Manifest Destinies essential reading for scholars of race in America." -The Journal of American History, "Shows the impacts (then, as now) of the dominant white racist frame coming in from outside what was once northern Mexico." - Racism Review, "[A]n interesting and comprehensive look at what New Mexicans really lost after being conquered by the United States."Albuquerque Journal"This book offers extraordinary insight into the colonial history of the United States and the processes by which its racial categories were created." Sally Engle Merry, author ofColonizing Hawai'i"Are Mexican Americans a racial or an ethnic group? This is the important questionManifest Destiniesasks and answers, showing us how, since the end of the Mexican War in 1848, Mexican Americans have been deemed an inferior race in the United States. In this marvelous, richly researched book, GÓmez also provocatively enters the whiteness debates." RamÓn E. GutiÉrrez, author ofWhen Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 15001846, "Laura E. Gómez'sManifest Destiniesoffers a new interpretation of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and how that ideology worked to create a Mexican American race in New Mexico." -Hispanic American Historical Review, "Shows the impacts (then, as now) of the dominant white racist frame coming in from outside what was once northern Mexico." - Racism Review ,, "In this provocative analysis, the sociologist and legal scholar Laura E. Gómez offers a compelling argument for the unique racial status of Mexican Americans, significant (and increasing) proportions of whom identify as nonwhite… her steady focus and original approach make Manifest Destinies essential reading for scholars of race in America." - Journal of American History ,, "In her discussion of the role of law in the creation of Mexican Americans as a racial group Gómez tells a convincing story of conquerors manipulating the conquered." - The Santa Fe New Mexican ,, Laura E. Gómezs Manifest Destinies offers a new interpretation of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and how that ideology worked to create a Mexican American race in New Mexico., "Laura E. Gmez's Manifest Destinies offers a new interpretation of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and how that ideology worked to create a Mexican American race in New Mexico." - Hispanic American Historical Review, "In her discussion of the role of law in the creation of Mexican Americans as a racial group Gómez tells a convincing story of conquerors manipulating the conquered." - The Santa Fe New Mexican, "Gómez sets out to write ‘an antidote to historical amnesia about the key nineteenth-century events that produced the first Mexican Americans.’ A law professor at the University of New Mexico, Gómez takes a three-pronged approach: she looks at Chicano history via sociology, history, and law, using New Mexico as a case study. At the heart of the book is the idea that Manifest Destiny was not, according to Gómez, a neutral political theory. Rather, it was a potent ideology that endowed white Americans with a sense of entitlement to the land and racial superiority over its inhabitants." -La Bloga
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
305.868/72073
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The U.S. Colonization of Northern Mexico and the Creation of Mexican Americans 2 Where Mexicans Fit in the New American Racial Order 3 How a Fragile Claim to Whiteness Shaped Mexican Americans' Relations with Indians and African Americans 4 Manifest Destiny's Legacy: Race in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
Synopsis
Watch the Author Interview on KNME In both the historic record and the popular imagination, the story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in America has been characterized by notions of annexation rather than colonialism, of opening rather than conquering, and of settling unpopulated lands rather than displacing existing populations. Using the territory that is now New Mexico as a case study, Manifest Destinies traces the origins of Mexican Americans as a racial group in the United States, paying particular attention to shifting meanings of race and law in the nineteenth century. Laura E. G mez explores the central paradox of Mexican American racial status as entailing the law's designation of Mexican Americans as &#"white" and their simultaneous social position as non-white in American society. She tells a neglected story of conflict, conquest, cooperation, and competition among Mexicans, Indians, and Euro-Americans, the region's three main populations who were the key architects and victims of the laws that dictated what one's race was and how people would be treated by the law according to one's race. G mez's path breaking work--spanning the disciplines of law, history, and sociology--reveals how the construction of Mexicans as an American racial group proved central to the larger process of restructuring the American racial order from the Mexican War (1846-48) to the early twentieth century. The emphasis on white-over-black relations during this period has obscured the significant role played by the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the colonization of northern Mexico in the racial subordination of black Americans., Watch the Author Interview on KNME In both the historic record and the popular imagination, the story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in America has been characterized by notions of annexation rather than colonialism, of opening rather than conquering, and of settling unpopulated lands rather than displacing existing populations. Using the territory that is now New Mexico as a case study, Manifest Destinies traces the origins of Mexican Americans as a racial group in the United States, paying particular attention to shifting meanings of race and law in the nineteenth century. Laura E. Gmez explores the central paradox of Mexican American racial status as entailing the law's designation of Mexican Americans as #;"white" and their simultaneous social position as non-white in American society. She tells a neglected story of conflict, conquest, cooperation, and competition among Mexicans, Indians, and Euro-Americans, the region's three main populations who were the key architects and victims of the laws that dictated what one's race was and how people would be treated by the law according to one's race. Gmez's path breaking work--spanning the disciplines of law, history, and sociology--reveals how the construction of Mexicans as an American racial group proved central to the larger process of restructuring the American racial order from the Mexican War (1846-48) to the early twentieth century. The emphasis on white-over-black relations during this period has obscured the significant role played by the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the colonization of northern Mexico in the racial subordination of black Americans., An essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americans--the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The war abruptly came to an end two years later, and 115,000 Mexicans became American citizens overnight. Yet their status as full-fledged Americans was tenuous at best. Due to a variety of legal and political maneuvers, Mexican Americans were largely confined to a second class status. How did this categorization occur, and what are the implications for modern Mexican Americans? Manifest Destinies fills a gap in American racial history by linking westward expansion to slavery and the Civil War. In so doing, Laura E Gómez demonstrates how white supremacy structured a racial hierarchy in which Mexican Americans were situated relative to Native Americans and African Americans alike. Steeped in conversations and debates surrounding the social construction of race, this book reveals how certain groups become racialized, and how racial categories can not only change instantly, but also the ways in which they change over time. This new edition is updated to reflect the most recent evidence regarding the ways in which Mexican Americans and other Latinos were racialized in both the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book ultimately concludes that it is problematic to continue to speak in terms Hispanic "ethnicity" rather than consider Latinos qua Latinos alongside the United States' other major racial groupings. A must read for anyone concerned with racial injustice and classification today., Watch the Author Interview on KNME In both the historic record and the popular imagination, the story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in America has been characterized by notions of annexation rather than colonialism, of opening rather than conquering, and of settling unpopulated lands rather than displacing existing populations. Using the territory that is now New Mexico as a case study, Manifest Destinies traces the origins of Mexican Americans as a racial group in the United States, paying particular attention to shifting meanings of race and law in the nineteenth century. Laura E. Gómez explores the central paradox of Mexican American racial status as entailing the law's designation of Mexican Americans as &#"white" and their simultaneous social position as non-white in American society. She tells a neglected story of conflict, conquest, cooperation, and competition among Mexicans, Indians, and Euro-Americans, the region's three main populations who were the key architects and victims of the laws that dictated what one's race was and how people would be treated by the law according to one's race. Gómez's path breaking work--spanning the disciplines of law, history, and sociology--reveals how the construction of Mexicans as an American racial group proved central to the larger process of restructuring the American racial order from the Mexican War (1846-48) to the early twentieth century. The emphasis on white-over-black relations during this period has obscured the significant role played by the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the colonization of northern Mexico in the racial subordination of black Americans.
LC Classification Number
E184.M5G625 2008
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