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

By Raúl Ramos

Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Ra l 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 Bexare os, indigenous groups, and Anglo-Americans, as they negotiated the contingencies and pressures on the frontier of competing empires.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807871249
• ISBN13: 9780807871249
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.4"