Colonizing ourselves Tejano back-to-Mexico movements and the making of a settler colonial nation / José Angel Hernández.
| Author/creator | Hernández, José Angel, 1969- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2024] |
| Description | xv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Tejano back-to-Mexico movements and the making of a settler colonial nation |
| Series | New directions in Tejano history ; volume 5 |
| Contents | Mesoamerican and Iberian colonizations -- Mexican colonization : assembling and disassembling the nation -- Autocatalytic colonization as state formation : some legal and material structures -- Colonization at midcentury : wars of reform and the reforms of war -- "Hijos del país" : autocolonization, 1867-1911 -- Contracting colonization : Luis Siliceo and El colono -- Diasporic debates and the varieties of settler-colonists -- Folk sociology in greater Mexico -- El colono and settler colonization propaganda -- La repatriación and the Taxonomies of Mexico-Texano Superiority -- Juntas Patrióticas and "how to colonize" -- An ethnographic gaze on settler colonization through declaraciones -- Characteristics of a typical settler-colonist -- Settler-colonists' companion species, tools, and material history. |
| Abstract | "In the late nineteenth century, the Mexican government, seeking to fortify its northern borders and curb migration to the United States, set out to relocate "Mexico-Texano" families, or Tejanos, on Mexican land. In Colonizing Ourselves, José Angel Hernández explores these movements back to Mexico, also known as autocolonization, as distinct in the history of settler colonization. Unlike other settler colonial states that relied heavily on overseas settlers, especially from Europe and Asia, Mexico received less than 1 percent of these nineteenth-century immigrants. This reality, coupled with the growing migration of farmers and laborers northward toward the United States, led ultimately to passage of the 1883 Land and Colonization Law. This legislation offered incentives to any Mexican in the United States willing to resettle in the republic: Tejanos, as well as other Mexican expatriates abroad, were to be granted twice the amount of land for settlement that other immigrants received. The campaign worked: ethnic Mexicans from Texas and the Mexican interior, as well as Indigenous peoples from Mexico, established numerous colonies on the northern frontier. Leading one of the most notable back-to-Mexico movements was Luis Siliceo, a Texan who, with a subsidized newspaper, El Colono, and the backing of Porfirio Díaz's administration, secured a contract to resettle Tejano families across several Mexican states. The story of this partnership, which Hernández traces from the 1890s through the turn of the century, provides insight into debates about settler colonization in Mexico. Viewed from various global, national, and regional perspectives, it helps to make sense of Mexico's autocolonization policy and its redefinition of Indigenous and settler populations during the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024009765 |
| ISBN | 9780806194592 (hardcover) |
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