| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Claiming Citizenship: Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas. By Anthony Quiroz. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. xxvi, 166 pp. $32.95, ISBN 1-58544-410-3.)

Anthony Quiroz's book is a milestone in Mexican American historiography. He situates Mexican American history within both American consensus and conflict historiography by using the central trope of "citizen." His basic argument is that the acquisition of full citizenship is the fundamental pursuit of the Mexican American population. By "claiming" their full rights of citizenship, the Mexican Americans of his case study in Victoria, Texas, and throughout the Southwest are simultaneously struggling against the limitation of their rights. It is a "quest for legitimation." This

quest ... [is] undertaken within the framework of a bicultural identity that is adaptable to the private Mexican world of home, church, neighborhood, and family as well as the public world of school, work, and politics. Coexistence with Anglo-American society and partaking of the American dream ... [is] the desired ideal. (p. xii)

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