When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the U.S.Mexican War in 1848, vast territories were officially within the borders of the United States. This bilingual volume, with all text printed in both English and Spanish, accompanies a major special exhibition at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage and presents an overview of how that major shift of both border and culture has continued to affect the people of the United States and Mexico for 150 years.
Iris Engstrand, a professor of history at the University of San Diego, sets the historical stage for the war. She describes the first encounters between Spain and the New World and discusses the impact of colonialism on indigenous peoples, up to the twentieth century, when U.S. troops commanded by General John Pershing entered Mexico during the 1916 Revolution. The plight of peoples in border regions and especially of the many people who suddenly became Mexican Americans in 1848 is addressed along with the emergence of other transnational populations in the region.
In the second essay, Richard Griswold del Castillo, a professor of Mexican American studies at San Diego State University, connects provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to present-day issues in the American Southwest, including Texas and California. Included in his discussion is a view of how the war and its aftermath were critical elements in the creation of a new ethnic identityMexican Americans.
The book includes reproductions of thirty-two paintings contemporaneous with the war period as well as other illustrations. As an overview for the general public rather than an in-depth study for scholars, Culture y Cultura also includes a list of suggested readings that would be ideal for students.

Engstrand, Iris Wilson; Griswold del Castillo, Richard; Poniatowska, Elena; Autry Museum of Western Heritage

Iris Engstrand; Richard Griswold del Castillo; Joanne D. Hale

Engstrand, Iris, Castillo, Richard Griswold del

United States, United States of America

Los Angeles, Calif, c1998

May 1998

US, 1998

160 pages : 26 cm
"In 1846, the United States and Mexican Republic began fighting a war that lasted for nearly two years. When the conflict ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, Mexico had lost the northern Frontier, which amounted to half of its territory. Published by the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, California, to accompany a major special exhibition, Culture y Cultura: Consequences of the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848 examines the impact of the war on contemporary life on both sides of what has become the border."--BOOK JACKET
Includes bibliographical references
A new flag / Benjamin Alire Sáenz -- Foreword : a gathering place = Prefacio : un lugar de reunion / Joanne D. Hale, James H. Nottage -- The impact of the U.S.-Mexican War on the Spanish southwest = El impacto de la invasion norteamericana en el suroeste español / Iris H.W. Engstrand -- The U.S.-Mexican War : contemporary implications for Mexican American civil and international rights = La invasion norteamericana : implicaciones contemporaneas en los derechos civiles e internacionales mexicoamericanos / Richard Griswold del Castillo -- Afterword : interior frontiers = Conclusion : las fronteras internas / Elena Poniatowska

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