The Borderlands of Race : : Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town / / Jennifer R. Nájera.

Throughout much of the twentieth century, Mexican Americans experienced segregation in many areas of public life, but the structure of Mexican segregation differed from the strict racial divides of the Jim Crow South. Factors such as higher socioeconomic status, lighter skin color, and Anglo cultura...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2015
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (195 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Mexican Inflections of Ethnography and History
  • Part 1. The Culture of Mexican Segregation
  • Chapter One. The Borderlands of Race and Rights
  • Chapter Two. Establishing a Culture of Segregation
  • Chapter Three. Formal and Informal Mexican Education within the Context of Segregation
  • Chapter Four. An Accommodated Form of Segregation
  • Part 2. Processes of Racial Integration
  • Chapter Five. Troubling the Culture of School Segregation: Mexican American Teachers and the Path to Desegregation
  • Chapter Six. Surgiendo de la Base: Community Movement and the Desegregation of the Catholic Church
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index