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Article: Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
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- The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
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- September 7, 2009
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Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race, by Laura E. Gómez. 272 pages. New York, NJ: New York University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-81 47-3 J 74. $32.00 cloth.
Laura Gómez presents a new and refreshing interpretation of the 19th-century Mexican-American experience, conceptualizing Mexican-Americans' historical formation as falling outside that of traditional European immigrants and within American racial categories established for African-American and Native Americans. Like the latter groups, Mexicans were violently incorporated into the United States, their membership and identity determined by the dominant (White, Euro-American) group. This subordinated them within a ...