LEADER 04487nam 2200685 450 001 9910787221803321 005 20230807212409.0 010 $a0-292-76756-0 024 7 $a10.7560/767553 035 $a(CKB)3710000000331745 035 $a(EBL)3571820 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001421970 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12474833 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001421970 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11424836 035 $a(PQKB)10192570 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3571820 035 $a(OCoLC)899987155 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43674 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3571820 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11010506 035 $a(DE-B1597)586457 035 $a(OCoLC)1280943391 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292767560 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000331745 100 $a20150203h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe borderlands of race $eMexican segregation in a South Texas town /$fJennifer R. Na?jera 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin, Texas :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (196 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-76755-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Mexican inflections of ethnography and history -- Part 1. The culture of Mexican segregation -- The borderlands of race and rights -- Establishing a culture of segregation -- Formal and informal Mexican education within the context of segregation -- An accommodated form of segregation -- Part 2. Processes of racial integration -- Troubling the culture of school segregation : Mexican American teachers and the path to desegregation -- Surgiendo de la base : community movement and the desegregation of the Catholic Church -- Epilogue. 330 $aThroughout 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 cultural fluency allowed some Mexican Americans to gain limited access to the Anglo power structure. Paradoxically, however, this partial assimilation made full desegregation more difficult for the rest of the Mexican American community, which continued to experience informal segregation long after federal and state laws officially ended the practice. In this historical ethnography, Jennifer R. Nájera offers a layered rendering and analysis of Mexican segregation in a South Texas community in the first half of the twentieth century. Using oral histories and local archives, she brings to life Mexican origin peoples? experiences with segregation. Through their stories and supporting documentary evidence, Nájera shows how the ambiguous racial status of Mexican origin people allowed some of them to be exceptions to the rule of Anglo racial dominance. She demonstrates that while such exceptionality might suggest the permeability of the color line, in fact the selective and limited incorporation of Mexicans into Anglo society actually reinforced segregation by creating an illusion that the community had been integrated and no further changes were needed. Nájera also reveals how the actions of everyday people ultimately challenged racial/racist ideologies and created meaningful spaces for Mexicans in spheres historically dominated by Anglos. 606 $aMexican Americans$xSegregation$zTexas$zLa Feria$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMexican Americans$xCivil rights$zTexas$zLa Feria$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMexican Americans$zTexas$zLa Feria$vBiography 606 $aRace discrimination$zTexas$zLa Feria$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aLa Feria (Tex.)$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aTexas, South$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aMexican Americans$xSegregation$xHistory 615 0$aMexican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aMexican Americans 615 0$aRace discrimination$xHistory 676 $a305.8968/720764495 700 $aNa?jera$b Jennifer R.$f1975-$01467746 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787221803321 996 $aThe borderlands of race$93678533 997 $aUNINA