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The Borderlands of Race: Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town

Autor Jennifer R. Nájera
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2015
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. Nájera 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, Nájera 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. Nájera 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781477311295
ISBN-10: 1477311297
Pagini: 195
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

Jennifer R. Nájera is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Riverside.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mexican Inflections of Ethnography and History
Part 1. The Culture of Mexican Segregation
1. The Borderlands of Race and Rights
2. Establishing a Culture of Segregation
3. Formal and Informal Mexican Education within the Context of Segregation
4. An Accommodated Form of Segregation
Part 2. Processes of Racial Integration
5. Troubling the Culture of School Segregation: Mexican American Teachers and the Path to Desegregation
6. Surgiendo de la Base: Community Movement and the Desegregation of the Catholic Church
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index

Recenzii

"A welcome addition to the literature on race in the US-Mexico borderlands."

Descriere

Using oral histories and local archives, this historical ethnography analyzes how and why Mexican American individuals unevenly experienced racial dominance and segregation in South Texas.