African American Voices: A Documentary Reader, 1619-1877, 4th Edition
by Editor: Steven Mintz (University of Houston, USA)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2009-04-01
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Summary
This short, comprehensive collection of primary documents provides an indispensable introduction to Mexican American history and culture. Includes over 90 carefully chosen selections, with a succinct introduction and comprehensive headnotes that identify the major issues raised by the documents Emphasizes key themes in US history, from immigration and geographical expansion to urbanization, industrialization, and civil rights struggles Includes a 'visual history' chapter of images that supplement the documents, as well as an extensive bibliography
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Table of Contents | |
| Introduction | |
| The United States' Spanish Heritage | |
| Exploring New Spain's Northern Frontier, 1542 | |
| The Spanish Borderlands, 1540-42 | |
| Resistance and Accommodation in New Mexico, 1680 | |
| Missionary Activity in New Spain's Northern Frontier, 1831 | |
| California's Mission System | |
| Life on a California Mission, 1835 | |
| Duties of a Housekeeper, 1823 | |
| Saint or Emissary of Empire? | |
| The Importance of Laborers in the Missions, 1775 | |
| On the Lenient Treatment of Indians, 1775 | |
| Description of the Province of New Mexico, 1812 | |
| From Spanish to Mexican Rule | |
| The Consequences of Mexican Independence, 1844-47 | |
| Anglo-American Settlement in Texas, 1812 | |
| Mounting Mexican Fears About the Influx of Anglo Americans into Texas, 1828 | |
| A Member of the Tejano Elite Favors Anglo American Immigration into Texas, 1830 | |
| The Secularization of the California Missions, 1833 | |
| A Californio Condemns the Intrusion of Anglo Americans into California, 1890 | |
| From Mexican to Anglo Rule | |
| Mexican Concern Deepens Over the Influx of Anglo Americans into Texas, 1828 | |
| Slavery in Texas: Pro and Con | |
| Promotion of the Expansion of Slavery, 1825 | |
| Denunciation of the Expansion of Slavery, 1837 | |
| Speech to Justify the Texas Revolution, 1836 | |
| A Tejano Leader Calls on Mexicans in Texas to Support the Texas Revolution, 1836 | |
| The Battle of the Alamo | |
| Perspective on the Battle of the Alamo, 1837 | |
| Perspective on Santa Anna's Strategy, 1849 | |
| The Fate of Tejanos, 1858 | |
| A Mexican Report Describes the Mistreatment of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Texas, 1873 | |
| The Mexican War | |
| Manifest Destiny | |
| Promotes his Idea of "Manifest Destiny," 1845 | |
| Mendívil Critiques "Manifest Destiny," 1837 | |
| The War Commences, 1846 | |
| A Controversial War, 1850 | |
| Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid, Resistance, 1846 | |
| The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
| Article IX, 1848 | |
| Article X, 1848 | |
| Mexico Debates the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
| Rejon Denounces the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848 | |
| Defends the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848 | |
| Legacies of Conquest | |
| Hutchings' California Magazine, Land Loss in California, 1857 | |
| A Loss of Land and Power, 1859 | |
| Hispano Commercial Club of Las Vegas, Land Loss in New Mexico, 1890 | |
| New Mexico Statehood | |
| Reaction to Senate Passage of a Statehood Bill for New Mexico, 1876 | |
| New Mexico Constitution, 1912 | |
| Articles II, VII, and XII | |
| Resistance to Conquest | |
| Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, A Proclamation to the Inhabitants of the State of Texas, 1859 | |
| Juan Nepomuceno Cortina Pledges Resistance to Intimidation and the Seizure of Land, 1859 | |
| Songs of Resistance and Pride, ca. late 19th century | |
| Resistance in California, 1874 | |
| Legend-Making: An Account of Joaquín Murieta, 1854 | |
| Visual History | |
| The Mission, Santa Barbara, Cal., c. 1890 | |
| Een waterplaats in Neder Californie, 1850 | |
| Houston, Santa Anna, and Cos, 1836 | |
| Storming of Chapultepec in Mexico, Sept. 13th, 1847, c. 1848 | |
| Things as They Are, 1849 | |
| Cortina, 1864 | |
| Mexican emigrating to U.S., Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, c. 1912 | |
| Mogollon, N.M., c. 1914 | |
| A Cooking Class of Mexican Girls, 1929 | |
| Some of the carrot pickers in the Coachella Valley, 1937 | |
| Mexican women pecan shellers at work. Union Plant. San Antonio, Texas, 1939 | |
| Interior of Mexican home. San Antonio, Texas, 1939 | |
| New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper, Frank Tellez, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, wearing hat and zoot suit, 1943 | |
| Viva Chávez, Viva la Causa, Viva la Huelga, 1968 | |
| Aguantar: Enduring and Challenging Fate with Bravery and Style | |
| Roman Catholic Church, 1866 | |
| Daily Optic, The White Caps Spell out their Position, 1890 | |
| Plan de San Diego, 1915 | |
| LULAC, Community Institutions, 1929 | |
| Young's Fact-Finding Committee, Labor Activism, 1930 | |
| Conflict between Farmworkers and Growers in California, 1940 | |
| North from Mexico | |
| Mexican Americans and Southwestern Growth, 1912 | |
| Immigration Restriction, 1928 | |
| A Defense of Immigration from Mexico, 1929 | |
| Americanization, 1931 | |
| Mistreatment of Mexican Immigrants | |
| Mexican Consulate, 1920 | |
| Six unknown Mexicans, Mexican Consulate, 1920 | |
| Enrique Santibonez, Mistreatment of Mexican Immigrants by the Border Patrol, 1930 | |
| Repatriados, 1932 | |
| A Denunciation of the Repatriation Program, 1933 | |
| President's Commission on Migratory Labor, The Bracero Program and Undocumented Workers, 1951 | |
| A Migratory Farmworker Testifies Before Congress, 1951 | |
| Operation Wetback, 1952 | |
| The Plight of Migrant Farmworkers, 1952 | |
| La Causa | |
| Delgado v. Bastrop, LULAC and the American GI Forum Challenge School Segregation, 1948 | |
| Citizens' Committee for the Defense of Mexican-American Youth, The Sleepy Lagoon Case, 1942 | |
| Governor's Citizen's Committee Report on Los Angeles Riots, The Zoot Suit Riots, 1943 | |
| Discrimination Against Mexican Americans in War Industries, 1945 | |
| The Méndez Case: Brown v. Board of Education for Mexican Americans,1946 | |
| The Felix Longoria Case: A Symbol of Discrimination, 1948 | |
| American GI Forum of Texas and the Texas State Federation of Labor, Recommendations on the Bracero Program, 1953 | |
| Hernandez v. Texas, The Supreme Court Overturns the Exclusion of Mexican Americans from Juries, 1954 | |
| Chicanismo | |
| US Senate Testimony on Farmworkers Unions, 1979 | |
| Proclamation of the Delano Grape Workers, 1969 | |
| A New Militancy,1969 | |
| The "Sleeping Giant" Awakes, 1969 | |
| Recovering Lost Lands, 1969 | |
| The National Chicano Moratorium, 1970 | |
| The Struggle Continues, 1975 | |
| Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, Myths About Immigrants, 2008 | |
| Independent School District v. Rodriguez: Educational Inequality, 1973 | |
| Assimilation, Separation, or a Third Way? 1982 | |
| MEChA, "El Plan de Santa Barbara," 1969 | |
| Mexican Americans in American Popular Culture | |
| A Bibliography of Mexican American History | |
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