Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship - Couverture souple

Valerio-Jiménez, Omar

 
9781469675626: Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1469675625 ISBN 13 : 9781469675626
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2024

Synopsis

This book analyzes the ways collective memories of the US-Mexico War have shaped Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles over several generations. As the first Latinx people incorporated into the nation, Mexican Americans were offered US citizenship by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war. Because the 1790 Naturalization Act declared whites solely eligible for citizenship, the treaty pronounced Mexican Americans to be legally white. While their incorporation as citizens appeared as progress towards racial justice and the electorate's diversification, their second-class citizenship demonstrated a retrenchment in racial progress. Over several generations, civil rights activists summoned conquest memories to link Mexican Americans' poverty, electoral disenfranchisement, low educational attainment, and health disparities to structural and institutional inequalities resulting from racial retrenchments. Activists also recalled the treaty's citizenship guarantees to push for property rights, protection from vigilante attacks, and educational reform.

Omar Valerio-Jiménez addresses the politics of memory by exploring how succeeding generations reinforced or modified earlier memories of conquest according to their contemporary social and political contexts. The book also examines collective memories in the US and Mexico to illustrate transnational influences on Mexican Americans and to demonstrate how community and national memories can be used strategically to advance political agendas.

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À propos de l?auteur

Omar Valerio-Jiménez is professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469675625
ISBN 13 
9781469675626
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781469675619: Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship

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ISBN 10 :  1469675617 ISBN 13 :  9781469675619
Editeur : The University of North Carolina..., 2024
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