Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship

by Omar Valerio-Jimenez

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This book analyzes the ways collective memories of the US-Mexico War have shaped Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles over several generations. As the first Latinx people incorporated into the nation, Mexican Americans were offered US citizenship by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war. Because the 1790 Naturalization Act declared whites solely eligible for citizenship, the treaty pronounced Mexican Americans to be legally white...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1469675625

ISBN13:9781469675626

Release Date:April 2024

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.24 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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