{"product_id":"they-called-them-greasers-anglo-attitudes-toward-mexicans-in-texas-1821-1900-9780292780545","title":"They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes Toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eTension between Anglos and Tejanos has existed in the Lone Star State since the earliest settlements. Such antagonism has produced friction between the two peoples, and whites have expressed their hostility toward Mexican Americans unabashedly and at times violently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas. For some, it will be disturbing reading. But its unpleasant revelations are based on extensive and thoughtful research into Texas' past. The result is important reading not merely for historians but for all who are concerned with the history of ethnic relations in our state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey Called Them Greasers\u003c\/i\u003e argues forcefully that many who have written about Texas's past--including such luminaries as Walter Prescott Webb, Eugene C. Barker, and Rupert N. Richardson--have exhibited, in fact and interpretation, both deficiencies of research and detectable bias when their work has dealt with Anglo-Mexican relations. De León asserts that these historians overlooled an austere Anglo moral code which saw the morality of Tejanos as \"defective\" and that they described without censure a society that permitted traditional violence to continue because that violence allowed Anglos to keep ethnic minorities \"in their place.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe León's approach is psychohistorical. Many Anglos in nineteenth-century Texas saw Tejanos as lazy, lewd, un-American, subhuman. In De León's view, these attitudes were the product of a conviction that dark-skinned people were racially and culturally inferior, of a desire to see in others qualities that Anglos preferred not to see in themselves, and of a need to associate Mexicans with disorder so as to justify their continued subjugation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arnoldo de León\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 5.84w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292780545","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40435133972595,"sku":"9.78029E+12","price":35.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ba72998e-44a1-4068-995a-164f960a45e7.jpg?v=1663077526","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/they-called-them-greasers-anglo-attitudes-toward-mexicans-in-texas-1821-1900-9780292780545","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}