Jennifer R Nájera

The Borderlands of Race

Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 195
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781477311295
• ISBN-10: 1477311297
• Artikelnr.: 44795923

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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