Mexican American colonization during the nineteenth century: a history of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Hernández, José Ángel

doi:10.5860/choice.50-2262

Choice Reviews Online

2012

DOI: 10.5860/choice.50-2262

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Mexican American colonization during the nineteenth century: a history of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

José Ángel Hernández

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“He Does Not Profess, Until Today, any Religion”: Catholic Clergy and Intermarriage in Paso del Norte during the Nineteenth Century

Starling¹

2015

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During the nineteenth century, the Mexican clergy of Paso del Norte (now Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico and El Paso, Texas) witnessed the imposition of new borders, the redrawing of diocesan boundaries, and an influx of newcomers with Protestant or European Catholic backgrounds. Despite these changes, Mexican priests continued to exercise leadership over parishes in western Texas and southern New Mexico after these areas became part of the United States. They granted dispensations to Catholic foreigners, confirmed former Protestants, and performed interethnic marriages. This study examines how the clergy enabled the emergence of a “structure of peace” in the borderlands that drew from familial as well as economic ties between Euro-American settlers and Mexican landholders. The clergy’s oversight of family life also allowed for the continued governance of church affairs across international borders during an age largely marked by U.S. expansionism. At times, the clergy subverted conquest by exercising power over the personal and religious lives of settlers. This period of accord was short-lived, however, and the rapid growth of the Euro-American population near Paso del Norte after 1870 brought an end to most formal Mexican authority over Catholics in this section of the Southwestern United States.

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“He Does Not Profess, Until Today, any Religion”: Catholic Clergy and Intermarriage in Paso del Norte during the Nineteenth Century

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2015

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Recuperating Histories of Violence in the Americas: Vernacular History-Making on the US–Mexico Border

Martinez¹

2014

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This article examines the 1915 double murder of Jesus Bazán and Antonio Longoria north of the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo County, Texas, and shows that this event is emblematic of the wider use of violence in subject formation and state-building projects in the Americas. This article describes a state-sanctioned period of racial terror and the culture of impunity in which state agents abused their authority and denied protection to ethnic Mexicans within their jurisdiction. This period of anti-Mexican violence continues to be memorialized a century later. Generational memories of this double murder—and the vernacular histories created by local residents in Texas—continue to challenge historical narratives that disavow generational loss and obscure roots of state violence. These histories confront historical narratives that justify the violence inherent in nation-building practices and make transparent the longer legacies of histories of border policing.

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The Conflicting National Narratives of the 1846-1848 North American Invasion of Mexico

Bissell¹

2017

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The Mexican-American War is seen in vastly different lights from the citizens of Mexico and the United States. Tracing the evolving narrative of this controversial conflict demonstrates the wide differences in contemporary public opinion in both Mexico and the United States and how influential leaders throughout history have successfully shaped the current narrative of the 1846-1848 conflict for their national political purposes.

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Mexican American colonization during the nineteenth century: a history of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Cited by 4 publications

References 123 publications

“He Does Not Profess, Until Today, any Religion”: Catholic Clergy and Intermarriage in Paso del Norte during the Nineteenth Century

“He Does Not Profess, Until Today, any Religion”: Catholic Clergy and Intermarriage in Paso del Norte during the Nineteenth Century

Recuperating Histories of Violence in the Americas: Vernacular History-Making on the US–Mexico Border

The Conflicting National Narratives of the 1846-1848 North American Invasion of Mexico

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