Keywords
racism
Court of Claims
Texas
borderlands
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Abstract
After the Texas declaration of independence (1836) and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), Mexicans who remained north of the Rio Grande had an ambivalent position before the law. In this article, I address the problem of Tejanos before the Texas Court of Claims through the land subdivision processes and analyze the rejections of written claims and the denial of credibility towards them. I made three preliminary conclusions. First, these cases reinforced stereotypes and racism; second, the Anglo-Texan commissioners questioned Tejano citizenship's value; and third, land speculators took advantage of Tejanos and contributed to the deterioration of their rights. To a considerable degree, the outcomes of this process added to the increasing discrimination and segregation that continued until the mid 20th century.
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