Menchaca, Martha.

Naturalizing Mexican immigrants a Texas history / [electronic resource] : by Martha Menchaca. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011. - x, 372 p. : ill., map.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the making of the U.S./Mexico border to the U.S. Civil War -- The politics of naturalization policy in Texas : the case of Mexican immigrants -- Ricardo Rodriguez and the People's Party in the 1890s -- From the Spanish-American War to the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution -- Mexican women and naturalization : the era of the woman suffrage movement -- Then and now : the path toward citizenship -- Appendix 1: Texas naturalization records and archives, pre-1906 -- Appendix 2: Persons naturalized in Texas and by Mexican origin, 1907/2009.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780292729988 (electronic bk.)




Mexican Americans--Government policy--History.--Texas
Mexican Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.--Texas
Immigrants--History.--Texas
Naturalization--History.--Texas
Citizenship--History.--Texas
Naturalization records--Texas.


United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
Mexico--Emigration and immigration--History.
Texas--Ethnic relations.
Texas--Politics and government.


Electronic books.

F395.M5 / M46 2011

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