Description:
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.
Brief description:
José Angel Hernández was Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston and the author of Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century: A History of the US-Mexico Borderlands.
Review Quotes: "In this work of meticulous research and remarkable scholarship focused on Mexican colonization, historian José Angel Hernández addresses one of the most vexing issues facing the modern world: the mass migration of people across national borders. His book encapsulates and gives voice to the experiences of people striving to build a better life."--Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga, author of War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830-1880