Mexican American Voices
Ordered by chronology and topic
Part 1: America's Spanish Heritage
Introduction
The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
The Spanish Borderlands
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Resistance and Accommodation in New Mexico
Don Antonio de Otermin
Missionary Activity in New Spain's Northern Frontier
Captain F. W. Beechey
Alexander Forbes
California's Mission System
Pablo Tac
Eulalia Pérez
Junípero Serra: Saint or Emissary of Empire?
Junípero Serra
Junípero Serra
The Fantasy Image of the Southwest
Pedro Bautista Pino
William Shaler
Hardening Class Lines
Debts to Spanish and Mexican Cultures
Part 2: From Spanish to Mexican Rule
Introduction
The Consequences of Mexican Independence
The Santa Fe Trail
James Josiah Webb
Anglo-American Settlement in Texas
Stephen F. Austin
Anglo-Mexican Relations in Texas
José María Sánchez
A Member of the Tejano Elite
Secularization of the Missions
Narcisco Dúran
Increasing Social Stratification in the Southwest
Guadalupe Vallejo
Part 3: From Mexican to Anglo Rule
Introduction
The Texas Revolution
Manuel Mier y Terán
Stephen F. Austin
The Battle of the Alamo
Antonio López de Santa Anna
Vicente Filisola
The Texas Revolution: A Conflict of Cultures?
José María Sánchez
The Fate of the Tejanos
John N. Seguín
Comisión Pesquisadora de la Frontera del Norte
Manifest Destiny
John L. Sullivan
Stages of Expansion
José María Tomel y Mendívil
The Mexican War
James K. Polk
A Controversial War
Ramon Alcaraz
Resistance
Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid
Donaciano Vigil
The San Patricios
Mariano Arista
Part 4: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Introduction
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Articles IX and X
Article IX
Article X
Mexico Debates the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Manuel Crescencio Rejon
Bernardo Couto
A Backhanded Compromise: The Protocol of Quéretaro
The Protocol of Quéretaro
Part 5: Legacies of Conquest
Introduction
Land Loss
Land Loss in California
Hutchings' California Magazine
The Public Land Commission
Public Land Commission
Antonio María Pico
A Changing Economy
New Mexico
Land Loss in New Mexico
Hispano Commercial Club of Las Vegas
New Mexico Statehood
Harper's Weekly
New Mexico Constitution
Part 6: Resistance
Introduction
The Bandido
Resistance in Texas
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina
Resistance in California
Tiburcio Vásquez
Legend-making: Joaquín Murieta
Joaquín Murieta Account by John Rollin Ridge
The White Caps
The White Caps
Felix Martínez
Part 7: Aguantar
Introduction
Community Institutions
LULAC
Labor Activism
Governor C.C. Young's Fact-Finding Committee
Frank C. McDonald
Roman Catholic Church
Archbishop Lamy
Father Joseph B. Macheboeuf
Part 8: North from Mexico
Introduction
Mexican Americans and Southwestern Growth
Samuel Bryan
Immigration Restriction
John Box
Ernesto Galarza
Americanization
Merton E. Hill
Repatriados
Mexican Consulate
Carey McWilliams
Mexican Americans and the New Deal
The Bracero Program and Undocumented Workers
President's Commission on Migratory Labor
Testimony Before Congress
Operation Wetback
George Stith
Juanita Garcia
Part 9: La Causa
Introduction
Sleepy Lagoon
Citizens' Committee for the Defense of Mexican-American Youth
The Zoot Suit Riots
Governor's Citizen's Committee Report on Los Angeles Riots
Discrimination Against Mexican Americans in War Industries
Carlos E. Castañeda
The
Méndez
Case:
Brown v. Board of Education
for Mexican Americans
Méndez et al. v. Westminster School District
Recommendations on the Bracero Program
American GI Forum of Texas and Texas State Federation of Labor
Salt of the Earth
Part 10: Chicanismo
Introduction
César Chavez
César Chavez
Dolores Huerta
Proclamation of the Delano Grape Workers
A New Militancy
Henry B. Gonzalez
The "Sleeping Giant" Awakes
La Raza Unida Party
Recovering Lost Lands
Cinco de Mayo
The National Chicano Moratorium
Rubén Salazar
Part 11: Mexican Americans in American Popular Culture
Introduction
Distorted Images
Selena
Part 12: The Struggle Continues
Introduction
Political Power
Vilma S. Martínez
Immigration
Educational Inequality
Dual Citizenship
Assimilation, Separation, or a Third Way?
This site was updated on 14-May-08.