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Borderlands of Race

Name: Borderlands of Race
Brand: University of Texas Press
SKU: 9780292767553
Price: 17935 HUF
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Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town

Szerző: Jennifer R Naajera

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: University of Texas Press

Elérhetőség: Kiadói készleten rendelésre

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Throughout much of the twentieth century, Mexican Americans experienced segregation in many areas of...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Jennifer R Naajera

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2015

oldal

195

EAN

9780292767553

ISBN

0292767552

Enbook ID

09232062

Kiadó

University of Texas Press

Súly

484

Méretek

331 x 503 x 23

Teljes leírás

Throughout much of the twentieth century, Mexican Americans experienced segregation in many areas of public life, but the structure of Mexican segregation differed from the strict racial divides of the Jim Crow South. Factors such as higher socioeconomic status, lighter skin color, and Anglo cultural fluency allowed some Mexican Americans to gain limited access to the Anglo power structure. Paradoxically, however, this partial assimilation made full desegregation more difficult for the rest of the Mexican American community, which continued to experience informal segregation long after federal and state laws officially ended the practice.In this historical ethnography, Jennifer R. Najera offers a layered rendering and analysis of Mexican segregation in a South Texas community in the first half of the twentieth century. Using oral histories and local archives, she brings to life Mexican origin peoples' experiences with segregation. Through their stories and supporting documentary evidence, Najera shows how the ambiguous racial status of Mexican origin people allowed some of them to be exceptions to the rule of Anglo racial dominance. She demonstrates that while such exceptionality might suggest the permeability of the color line, in fact the selective and limited incorporation of Mexicans into Anglo society actually reinforced segregation by creating an illusion that the community had been integrated and no further changes were needed. Najera also reveals how the actions of everyday people ultimately challenged racial/racist ideologies and created meaningful spaces for Mexicans in spheres historically dominated by Anglos.