TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gómez,Laura E.
TI  - Manifest destinies: the making of the Mexican American race 
SN  - 9780814731741 
U1  - 305.868/72073 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University
KW  - Mexican Americans
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Colonization
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Racism
KW  - United States
KW  - New Mexico
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-234) and index; The U.S. colonization of northern Mexico and the creation of Mexican Americans -- Where Mexicans fit in the new American racial order -- How a fragile claim to whiteness shaped Mexican Americans' relations with Indians and African Americans -- Manifest destiny's legacy : race in America at the turn of the twentieth century; law
ER  -