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Manifest Destinies : The Making of the Mexican American Race by Laura E. Gómez is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Watch the Author Interview on KNMEIn 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 soc

Who reads Manifest Destinies : The Making of the Mexican American Race?

Author

Laura E. Gómez

Publisher

NYU Press; New York University; New York University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814731741

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Law, Sociology

Rating

3.65 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14