Manifest Destiny's Legacy: Race in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Authors

Laura Gomez, University of New Mexico - School of Law

Format

Book

First Page

117

Last Page

147

Files

Description

In Manifest Destinies, Laura E. Gomez explores the central paradox of Mexican American racial status as entailing the law's designation of Mexican Americans as white and their simultaneous social position as non-white in American society. She tells a neglected story of conflict, conquest, cooperation, and competition among Mexicans, Indians, and Euro-Americans, the regions three main populations who were the key architects and victims of the laws that dictated what ones race was and how people would be treated by the law according to ones race.

ISBN

9780814731741

Publication Date

1-1-2007

City

New York, NY

Publisher

New York University

Disciplines

Law

Recommended Citation

Gomez, Laura. "Manifest Destiny's Legacy: Race in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century." (2007): 117-147. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facbookdisplay/21