Foreigners in their native land : historical roots of the Mexican Americans /

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Contributors: Weber, David J., (Editor), Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo, (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1973]
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • New Spain's Far Northern Frontier
  • Church and State / Luis de Velasco
  • Frontier Military / Antonio Martinez
  • "Contributions are small" / Francisco Martinez de Baeza
  • A Communal Land Grant / Lorenzo Marquis & Antonio Jose Ortiz
  • Mestizaje / First Los Angeles Census
  • "Most hardy subjects" / Zebulon M. Pike ; Miguel Ramos de Arizpe
  • "There were no paupers" / Jose Agustin de Escudero
  • "Backward" New Mexico / Pedro Bautista Pino
  • The "wretched village" of San Antonio / Juan Agustin Morfi
  • The Romantic Frontier / Guadalupe Vallejo ; George Wharton James
  • Yankee Infiltration and the Hardening of Stereotypes
  • "Calculating the profit" / Carlos Dehault Delassus
  • "Indications are very dangerous" / Joaquin del Real Alencaster
  • California "would fall without an effort" / William Shaler
  • The Black Legend / William Robertson
  • "Degenerate inhabitants of New Mexico" / Rufus B. Sage
  • "Blood ... as ditch water" / Walter Prescott Webb
  • "An ill opinion of the Mexicans" / Jose Maria Sanchez
  • "Lazy people of vicious character" / Jose Maria Sanchez
  • "Industrious, honest North American settlers" / Ayuntamiento of San Antonio
  • "Waiting the result" / Thomas O. Larkin
  • Cultures Collide
  • "I am warning you" / Manuel Mier y Teran
  • "The two people cannot mingle together" / Committee of Vigilance & Public Safety, San Augustin
  • "Their decision irrevocably sealed their fate" / Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
  • "Texians! Render every possible assistance" / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin
  • "War ... our final salvation" / Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil
  • "The sacrificial goat" / Pio Pico
  • "We would have made some kind of resistance" / 105 New Mexicans
  • "Keep yourselves quiet" / Donaciano Vigil
  • Reactions to Defeat / Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid ; Juan Bautista Alvarado ; Anguistias de la Guerra Ord
  • "A duty before God" / William P. Rogers, Robert F. Stockton
  • "The Government of a white race" / John C. Calhoun
  • All the Rights of Citizens
  • "Their property, their persons, their religion" / Stephen Watts Kearny
  • "All the rights of citizens" / Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • "For me the placers were finished" / Antonio F. Coronel
  • "Hung as suspects" / El Clamor Publico
  • "A foreigner in my native land" / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin
  • "No justice for the Mexicans in Texas" / Comision Pesquisadora
  • "A set policy of terrorizing the Mexicans" / A Texas Ranger
  • "Parceled out to Mexicans" / Tucson Citizen
  • "Compelled to sell, little by little" / Antonio Maria Pico, et. al.
  • "A denial of justice" / Public Land Commission
  • Accommodation, Assimilation, and Resistance
  • "Revenge took possession of me" / Tiburcio Vasquez ; Joaquin Murrieta
  • "To defend ourselves" / Juan Nepomuceno Cortina
  • Las Gorras Blancas / Nuestra Plataforma ; Felix Martinez
  • "In sympathy" / N.A. Jennings
  • "Volunteers, both Mexicans and Americans" / Juan I. Tellez
  • "Now or never" / La Voz del Pueblo ; Constitution of New Mexico
  • "Por la raza y para la raza" / Congreso Mexicanista
  • A Sample from the Press / El Labrador
  • Workers from Mexico: Three Views. Mexican / Diario del Hogar ; Anglo American / Samuel Bryan ; Mexican American / El Labrador.