Tejano Journey 1770-1850

About this book

A century before the arrival of Stephen F. Austins colonists Spanish settlers from Mexico were putting down roots in Texas. From San Antonio de Bxar and La Baha (Goliad) northeastward to Los Adaes and later Nacogdoches they formed communities that evolved their own distinct "Tejano" identity. In Tejano Journey 17701850 Gerald Poyo and other noted borderlands historians track the changes and continuities within Tejano communities during the years in which Texas passed from Spain to Mexico to the Republic of Texas and finally to the United States. The authors show how a complex process of accommodation and resistancemarked at different periods by Tejano insurrections efforts to work within the political and legal systems and isolation from the mainstreamcharacterized these years of changing sovereignty. While interest in Spanish and Mexican borderlands history has grown tremendously in recent years the story has never been fully told from the Tejano perspective. This book complements and continues the history begun in Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio which Gerald E. Poyo edited with Gilberto M. Hinojosa.