Ebook: Recovering history, constructing race: the Indian, black, and white roots of Mexican Americans

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Racial Foundations -- 2. Racial Formation: Spain's Racial Order -- 3. The Move North: The Gran Chichimeca and -- New Mexico -- 4. The Spanish Settlement of Texas and Arizona -- 5. The Settlement of California and the Twilight of -- the Spanish Period -- 6. Liberal Racial Legislation during the Mexican Period, -- I82I-I848 -- 7. Land, Race, and War, I82I-I848 -- 8. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Racialization -- of the Mexican Population -- 9. Racial Segregation and Liberal Policies Then and Now -- Epilogue: Auto/ethnographic Observations of Race -- and History -- Notes.