The borderlands of race : Mexican segregation in a South Texas town / / Jennifer R. Nájera

• Autore: Nájera Jennifer R. <1975->
• Pubblicazione: Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8968/720764495
• Soggetto topico: Mexican Americans - Segregation - Texas - La Feria - History - 20th century; Mexican Americans - Civil rights - Texas - La Feria - History - 20th century; Mexican Americans - Texas - La Feria; Race discrimination - Texas - La Feria - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: La Feria (Tex.) Race relations History 20th century; Texas, South Race relations History 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The borderlands of race
• ISBN: 0-292-76756-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818465003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II