Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916–39; Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821–1861

By Gabriela F. Arredondo. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. x + 217 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $25.00 paper.); By Raúl A. Ramos. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii + 279 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, tables, figures, map, index. $35.00 cloth.)