Beyond the Alamo

Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States Raúl Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan or Tejano society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. Ramos explores the factors that helped shape the ethnic identity of the Tejano population including cross-cultural contacts between Bexareños indigenous groups and Anglo-Americans as they negotiated the contingencies and pressures on the frontier of competing empires.