Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 The Pobladores and the Casta System 7
5. 2 New Racial Structures: Citizenship and Land Conflicts 39
6. 3 Violence and Segregation, 1877–1927 75
7. 4 Challenging Segregation, 1927–1948 113
8. 5 The Path to Desegregation, 1948–1962 151
9. 6 Institutional Desegregation, Social Movement Pressures, and the Chicano Movement 183
10. 7 Mexican American Social Mobility and Immigration 221
11. Epilogue 257
12. Acknowledgments 263
13. Appendixes 265
14. Notes 269
15. Bibliography 307
16. Illustration Credits 329
17. Index 331