Papers by Jerry Gonzalez
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Southern California Quarterly, 2009
Book Reviews by Jerry Gonzalez
Chicanx history emerged from the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the new social history of... more Chicanx history emerged from the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the new social history of the decades that followed. While it often sought to document the lives and history of Mexican-ancestry people from Los Angeles to Michigan and beyond, it sometimes failed to place Chicanx history within the main contours of U.S. history. In the past twenty years, this has changed as many historians writing in Chicanx history have written with an eye to the larger themes and questions of U.S. history and intentionally sought to place their work within the broader historiography of U.S. national and transnational history. For those writing about U.S. history from the colonial era to the present, the history of Chicanx people can no longer be ignored, and the work that is being produced increasingly seeks to weave itself into the tapestry of American historiography. This background sets the stage for the four recent books that are the subject of this review.
Planning Perspectives, 2019
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Conference Presentations by Jerry Gonzalez
This paper examines the history of municipal annexation as a mechanism for suburban expansion in ... more This paper examines the history of municipal annexation as a mechanism for suburban expansion in San Antonio, Texas between 1939 and 2014. Annexation, which permits municipalities to enlarge jurisdictional boundaries by absorbing adjacent, unincorporated areas, emerged as a powerful governmental apparatus to grow Sunbelt cities across the postwar United States. Political elites in San Antonio began leveraging annexation with remarkable efficiency after World War II and continue the practice today. During the period under study, the city council executed 461 annexations and boundary adjustments, adding 497 square miles to the metropolitan footprint (List of Annexation Ordinances, 2014). The same time frame saw San Antonio grow to become the seventh most populous city in the United States, adding 430,000 people in the last decade alone, with another 1.1 million expected by 2040 (Rivard, 2016). The continued use of municipal annexation as a way to grow the city has generated a wide array of responses among citizenry, ranging from strong support within development communities eager to access emerging markets, to opposition from historically disenfranchised neighborhoods where people contend that annexation further consolidates resources in middle-and upper-income areas of the city. This paper examines the historical roots of such positions in an attempt to clarify today's contentious discourse on annexation in San Antonio.
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