Mexican American Voices A Documentary Reader [Paperback]

• Includes over 90 carefully chosen selections, with a succinct introduction and comprehensive headnotes that identify the major issues raised by the documents
• Emphasizes key themes in US history, from immigration and geographical expansion to urbanization, industrialization, and civil rights struggles
• Includes a 'visual history' chapter of images that supplement the documents, as well as an extensive bibliography

Preface.

Introduction.

Chapter 1: The United States' Spanish Heritage.

1 Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Exploring New Spain's Northern Frontier, 1542.

2 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, The Spanish Borderlands, 1540–42.

3 Don Antonio de Otermin, Resistance and Accommodation in New Mexico, 1680.

4 Captain F. W. Beechey, Missionary Activity in New Spain's Northern Frontier, 1831.

5 California's Mission System.

Pablo Tac, Life on a California Mission, 1835.

Eulalia Pérez, Duties of a Housekeeper, 1823.

6 Junípero Serra: Saint or Emissary of Empire?

Junípero Serra, The Importance of Laborers in the Missions, 1775.

Junípero Serra, On the Lenient Treatment of Indians, 1775.

7 Pedro Bautista Pino, Description of the Province of New Mexico, 1812.

Chapter 2: From Spanish to Mexican Rule.

1 James Josiah Webb, The Consequences of Mexican Independence, 1844–7.

2 Miguel Ramos de Arizpe, Anglo-AmelM