The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of

Studies territorial and rural New Mexico in the nineteenth century, the struggle for statehood, Nuevomexicano politics, immigration, urban issues in the twentieth century, the role of Spanish in education, ethnic identity, and the Chicano movement.

David R. Maciel and Erlinda Gonzales-Berry spent many years teaching and writing in New Mexico. They are currently chairing departments of Ethnic Studies and Chicano a Studies, respectively, at California State University at Dominguez Hills and Oregon State University

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1

(11)

Erlinda Gonzales-Berry

David R. Maciel

PART ONE The Nineteenth Century: Overview

12

(72)

David R. Maciel

Erlinda Gonzales-Berry

New Mexico Resistance to U.S. Occupation during the Mexican-American War of 1846--1848

23

(20)

Carlos R. Herrera

The Return to Mexico: The Relocation of New Mexican Families to Chihuahua and the Confirmation of a Frontier Region, 1848-1854

43

(16)

Martin Gonzalez de la Vara

The People's Movement: Las Gorras Blancas

59

(25)

Anselmo Arellano

PART TWO The Twentieth Century: Overview

84

(219)

David R. Maciel

Erlinda Gonzales-Berry

Spanish American Ethnic Identity and New Mexico's Statehood Struggle

97

(46)

John Nieto-Phillips

Nuevo Mexico by Any Other Name: Creating a State from an Ancestral Homeland

143

(26)

Gabriel Melendez

Which Language Will Our Children Speak? The Spanish Language and Public Education Policy in New Mexico, 1890-1930

169

(22)

Erlinda Gonzales-Berry

The Political Development of New Mexico Hispanas

191

(24)

Maurilio Vigil

The Forgotten Diaspora: Mexican Immigration to New Mexico

215

(24)

Maria Rosa Garcia-Acevedo

La Plaza Vieja (Old Town Alburquerque): The Transformation of a Hispano Village, 1880s--1950s

239

(30)

Benny J. Andres Jr.

La Reconquista: The Chicano Movement in New Mexico

269

(34)

David R. Maciel

Juan Jose Pena

Notes on Contributors

303

(2)

Index

305

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The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico

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