Books in the New Directions in Tejano History series

Ideas defer to no border - least of all the idea of belonging. So where does one belong, and what does belonging even mean, when a border inscribes one's identity? This dilemma, so critical to the ethnic Mexican community, is at the heart of Homeland, an intellectual, cultural, and literary history of belonging in ethnic Mexican thought.

Spanning the Anglo settlement of Texas in the 1830s, the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas, the US-Mexican War, Indian wars, the US Civil War, French intervention into Mexico, and the subjugation of borderlands Indians by the US and Mexican armies, this is a magisterial work that forever alters, complicates, and enriches borderlands history.