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"A history of the 'back to Mexico' movement in the late 19th century, a colonization scheme that enticed Tejanos to settle on Mexican lands near its northern border with Texas"-- [Provided by publisher]
"In the late nineteenth century, the Mexican government, seeking to fortify its northern borders and curb migration to the United States, set out to relocate "Mexico-Texano" families, or Tejanos, on Mexican land. In Colonizing Ourselves, José Angel Hernández explores these movements back to Mexico, also known as autocolonization, as distinct in the history of settler colonization. Unlike other settler colonial states that relied heavily on overseas settlers, especially from Europe and Asia, Mexico received less than 1 percent of these nineteenth-century immigrants. This reality, coupled with the growing migration of farmers and laborers northward toward the United States, led ultimately to passage of the 1883 Land and Colonization Law. This legislation offered incentives to any Mexican in the United States willing to resettle in the republic: Tejanos, as well as other Mexican expatriates abroad, were to be granted twice the amount of land for settlement that other immigrants received. The campaign worked: ethnic Mexicans from Texas and the Mexican interior, as well as Indigenous peoples from Mexico, established numerous colonies on the northern frontier. Leading one of the most notable back-to-Mexico movements was Luis Siliceo, a Texan who, with a subsidized newspaper, El Colono, and the backing of Porfirio Díaz's administration, secured a contract to resettle Tejano families across several Mexican states. The story of this partnership, which Hernández traces from the 1890s through the turn of the century, provides insight into debates about settler colonization in Mexico. Viewed from various global, national, and regional perspectives, it helps to make sense of Mexico's autocolonization policy and its redefinition of Indigenous and settler populations during the nineteenth century"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Mesoamerican and Iberian colonizations
• Mexican colonization : assembling and disassembling the nation
• Autocatalytic colonization as state formation : some legal and material structures
• Colonization at midcentury : wars of reform and the reforms of war
• "Hijos del país" : autocolonization, 1867-1911
• Contracting colonization : Luis Siliceo and El colono
• Diasporic debates and the varieties of settler-colonists
• Folk sociology in greater Mexico
• El colono and settler colonization propaganda
• La repatriación and the Taxonomies of Mexico-Texano Superiority
• Juntas Patrióticas and "how to colonize"
• An ethnographic gaze on settler colonization through declaraciones
• Characteristics of a typical settler-colonist
• Settler-colonists' companion species, tools, and material history.

Author/Creator:

Hernández, José Angel, 1969- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Colonizing ourselves: Tejano back-to-Mexico movements and the making of a settler colonial nation [by Hernández, J.A.]

Related Series:

New directions in Tejano history; volume 5

Subjects:

Return migration — Mexico — History

Mexicans — Texas — History

Mexicans — Migrations

Settler colonialism — Mexico — History

Mexico — Emigration and immigration — History

Mexico — Emigration and immigration — Government policy

Mexico — History — 1867-1910

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

JV7403 .H47 2024eb

ISBNs:

9780806195087 (electronic bk.)
0806195088 (electronic bk.)
9780806194592 [Invalid]
0806194596 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1455085521

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31213650 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp21200402