Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861

Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raul Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. Ramos explores the factors that helped shape the ethnic identity of the Tejano population, including cross-cultural contacts between Bexarenos, indigenous groups, and Anglo-Americans, as they negotiated the contingencies and pressures on the frontier of competing empires.

Author: Raúl a. Ramos
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/01/2010
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780807871249

About the Author
Raul A. Ramos is assistant professor of history at the University of Houston.