{"title":"Review: <i>The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality</i>, by Martha Menchaca","authors":"Felipe Hinojosa","doi":"10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.645","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality, by Martha Menchaca The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality. By Martha Menchaca. (Austin, University of Texas Press, 2022. 352 pp.) Felipe Hinojosa Felipe Hinojosa Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (4): 645–646. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.645 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Felipe Hinojosa; Review: The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality, by Martha Menchaca. Pacific Historical Review 1 November 2023; 92 (4): 645–646. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.645 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search Years ago, I participated in a Mexican American history workshop where several scholars presented their work on Texas history. The respondent, who is a senior scholar in Chicana/o history, started their comments by pointing out that none of the presenters had cited Arnoldo De León’s work. “Does no one cite De León’s work anymore?” they asked. The room got quiet for a moment, and what followed was a fascinating discussion about history, sources, and the future of Mexican American history in Texas. Martha Menchaca’s newest book, The Mexican American Experience in Texas, not only builds on De León’s work (and cites him), it’s a brilliant synthesis built on research from archives in Texas and Mexico and an ever-growing secondary literature. Menchaca provides a broad historical overview, from the Spanish colonization of Texas to immigrant rights movements and Texas politics in the twenty-first century, that is focused on the political... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":45312,"journal":{"name":"PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.645","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality, by Martha Menchaca The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality. By Martha Menchaca. (Austin, University of Texas Press, 2022. 352 pp.) Felipe Hinojosa Felipe Hinojosa Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (4): 645–646. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.645 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Felipe Hinojosa; Review: The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality, by Martha Menchaca. Pacific Historical Review 1 November 2023; 92 (4): 645–646. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.645 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search Years ago, I participated in a Mexican American history workshop where several scholars presented their work on Texas history. The respondent, who is a senior scholar in Chicana/o history, started their comments by pointing out that none of the presenters had cited Arnoldo De León’s work. “Does no one cite De León’s work anymore?” they asked. The room got quiet for a moment, and what followed was a fascinating discussion about history, sources, and the future of Mexican American history in Texas. Martha Menchaca’s newest book, The Mexican American Experience in Texas, not only builds on De León’s work (and cites him), it’s a brilliant synthesis built on research from archives in Texas and Mexico and an ever-growing secondary literature. Menchaca provides a broad historical overview, from the Spanish colonization of Texas to immigrant rights movements and Texas politics in the twenty-first century, that is focused on the political... You do not currently have access to this content.
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For over 70 years, the Pacific Historical Review has accurately and adeptly covered the history of American expansion to the Pacific and beyond, as well as the post-frontier developments of the 20th-century American West. Recent articles have discussed: •Japanese American Internment •The Establishment of Zion and Bryce National Parks in Utah •Mexican Americans, Testing, and School Policy 1920-1940 •Irish Immigrant Settlements in Nineteenth-Century California and Australia •American Imperialism in Oceania •Native American Labor in the Early Twentieth Century •U.S.-Philippines Relations •Pacific Railroad and Westward Expansion before 1945