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They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821–1900 Hardcover – June 1, 1983

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Tension between Anglos and Tejanos has existed in the Lone Star State since the earliest settlements. Such antagonism has produced friction between the two peoples, and whites have expressed their hostility toward Mexican Americans unabashedly and at times violently.

This seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas. For some, it will be disturbing reading. But its unpleasant revelations are based on extensive and thoughtful research into Texas' past. The result is important reading not merely for historians but for all who are concerned with the history of ethnic relations in our state.

They Called Them Greasers argues forcefully that many who have written about Texas's past—including such luminaries as Walter Prescott Webb, Eugene C. Barker, and Rupert N. Richardson—have exhibited, in fact and interpretation, both deficiencies of research and detectable bias when their work has dealt with Anglo-Mexican relations. De León asserts that these historians overlooled an austere Anglo moral code which saw the morality of Tejanos as "defective" and that they described without censure a society that permitted traditional violence to continue because that violence allowed Anglos to keep ethnic minorities "in their place."

De León's approach is psychohistorical. Many Anglos in nineteenth-century Texas saw Tejanos as lazy, lewd, un-American, subhuman. In De León's view, these attitudes were the product of a conviction that dark-skinned people were racially and culturally inferior, of a desire to see in others qualities that Anglos preferred not to see in themselves, and of a need to associate Mexicans with disorder so as to justify their continued subjugation.

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"This well-written, comprehensive account of Anglo-American stereotypes of Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas makes for interesting reading. . . . As the author notes, the heritage of the past still persists. Mexican Americans in Texas are no longer lynched, but they continue to be 'victims of psychological violence in the more subtle form of discrimination.'" (American Studies)

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Texas Press; First Edition (June 1, 1983)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 167 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0292703635
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0292703636
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces

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Annie Torres

Great historical archeology of language

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2021

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Extensive records that capture the those racial feeling of the are. I really like how De Leon goes right into terminology without condeluding .

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2020

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Jessica Vidal

Great book! A lot of insight on the 19th ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2017

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Great book! A lot of insight on the 19th century in Texas and the relationship between Mexicans and Anglo Americans.

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2022

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This was a very informative book. I am a Chicano and have read a great deal of Mexican-American/Chicano history. This books follows along the lines of what I have read. The author doesn’t try to ‘polite’ up the book at all. For a short book he clearly covered a lot of historic material. I only gave it three stars though because the author has way too many run on sentences and uses the work ‘colored’ and the ‘n’ word when he doesn’t need to use them. He writes they called them, ‘colored’ or ‘n’ which is understandable. He wrote, however, the ‘colored’ and/or ‘n’ people were lynched. He didn’t need to use those words in that context. The book was written in the 1980’s not the 1940’s so he should have known better. I was disappointed in him.

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