Quest for Tejano Identity in San Antonio Texas 1913-2000

The Quest for Tejano Identity was written as a study of Mexican American consciousness, and a history of the assumptions and intellectual responses of Mexican Americans in south Texas. The work uses history to inquire why different ethnic groups think, act and speak as they do as they encounter American society. Chapter 1 Formation of Community, 1519–1910; Chapter 2 Visions of Community, Part I; Chapter 3 Another Community: Identity among Working Class Mexican Americans, 1935–1941; Chapter 4 A City of Migrants: Los Angeles and Chicano Identity; Chapter 5 Visions of Community, Part II; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography Index;