Colonizing Ourselves Volume 5 Tejano Back-To-Mexico Movement

In the late nineteenth century, the Mexican government, seeking to fortify its borders and curb migration to the U.S., set out to relocate “Mexico-Texano” families, or Tejanos, on Mexican land. Here, José Angel Hernández explores these movements back to Mexico, also known as autocolonization, as distinct in the history of settler colonization.