By Raúl A. Ramos
Introducing a brand new version for the transnational heritage of the U.S., Raul Ramos locations Mexican american citizens on the middle of the Texas construction tale. He makes a speciality of Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a interval of political transition starting with the 12 months of Mexican independence. Ramos explores the criteria that contributed to shaping the ethnic id of the Tejano inhabitants, together with cross-cultural contacts among Bexarenos, indigenous teams, and Anglo-Americans, as they negotiated the contingencies and pressures at the frontier of competing empires.
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