They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes Toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821–1900This seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas. |
Contents
Initial Contacts Redeeming Texas from Mexicans 18211836 | 1 |
Niggers Redskins and Greasers Tejano MixedBloods in a White Racial State | 14 |
An Indolent People | 24 |
Defective Morality | 36 |
Disloyalty and Subversion | 49 |
Leyendas Negras | 63 |
Frontier Democracy and Tejanos the Antebellum Period | 75 |
Frontier Democracy and Tejanos the Postbellum Period | 87 |
Epilogue Not the White Mans Equal | 103 |
Notes | 107 |
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