Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-266) and index.
Contents:
The U.S. colonization of northern Mexico and the creation of Mexican Americans -- Where Mexicans fit in the new American racial order -- How a fragile claim to whiteness shaped Mexican Americans' relations with Indians and African Americans -- Manifest destiny's legacy: race in America at the turn of the twentieth century.
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