Remembering Conquest
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Remembering Conquest

Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Remembering Conquest

Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship

About this book

This book analyzes the ways collective memories of the US-Mexico War have shaped Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles over several generations. As the first Latinx people incorporated into the nation, Mexican Americans were offered US citizenship by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war. Because the 1790 Naturalization Act declared whites solely eligible for citizenship, the treaty pronounced Mexican Americans to be legally white. While their incorporation as citizens appeared as progress towards racial justice and the electorate’s diversification, their second-class citizenship demonstrated a retrenchment in racial progress. Over several generations, civil rights activists summoned conquest memories to link Mexican Americans' poverty, electoral disenfranchisement, low educational attainment, and health disparities to structural and institutional inequalities resulting from racial retrenchments. Activists also recalled the treaty’s citizenship guarantees to push for property rights, protection from vigilante attacks, and educational reform.

Omar Valerio-Jiménez addresses the politics of memory by exploring how succeeding generations reinforced or modified earlier memories of conquest according to their contemporary social and political contexts. The book also examines collective memories in the US and Mexico to illustrate transnational influences on Mexican Americans and to demonstrate how community and national memories can be used strategically to advance political agendas.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations and Maps
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter One: Contested Borderlands: The US-Mexico War, Treaty, and Immediate Aftermath
  11. Chapter Two: Responding to Conquest: Land Loss, Violence, and Repatriation
  12. Chapter Three: Asserting Rights, Remembering Loss: Statehood, Property Rights, and Transnational Influences
  13. Chapter Four: Immigrants and Transnational Circulation of Conquest Memories: School Segregation, Lynching, and Shifting Boundaries
  14. Chapter Five: Patriotism and Legacies of Conquest: Segregation, Electoral Politics, and Jury Representation
  15. Chapter Six: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements: Land Grants, Police Brutality, and the Draft
  16. Conclusion
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index