The intentions the author has for this special book; Mexican Americans in Texas a Brief History was to inform the reader the roots of Mexican Americans how it all began. The regions that various people inhabited, such as Spain, Mexico, and the Texas Republic in the 1790s-1836. As well, the years its history began, the struggles they had to go through while here in Texas Republic and the victory they won in war and citizenship they earned in 1836-1880 because of the war; The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Later on, in the last decades of the nineteenth century, Mexican Americans faced powerful racial attitudes from Anglo Americans. The author states about Anglo Americans or Anglo-Tejanos went to the extent where they would torture and burn Mexican Americans alive. Arnoldo De Leon speaks about the Tejano life in the modern age …show more content…
They had various assumptions of Tejano society collapsing when Anglo Texans established an American rule in 1836; War for Texas independence against Mexico. Although before 1970, there were theses, articles, and other discussions over Mexican Americans due to a large group of historians that were absolutely false on their accusations that Tejanos lacked a distinct history. However, throughout the country, Mexican American communities made a transformation in society in the late 1960s. The term that was used was “Chicano Movement”. Tons of people all over the United States demanded the notice of racist educators, the adaptation they viewed as ethnocentric, the development of classes in Mexican-American history, and employing more Mexican-American teachers and administrators. Later on, that change turned into “Chicano history”. Until 1848, Mexican Americans were declared by the United States citizens of the Texas Republic. After the victory in the war with Mexico; The Treaty of Guadalupe