. >> now, martha menchaca talks with booktv about her book, naturalizing mexican immigrants. professor menchaca was interviewed at the university of texas at austin as part of booktv's college series. >> and now on your screen is university of texas professor martha menchaca whose book is called naturalizing mexican immigrants. one of her books i should say is called naturalizing mexican immigrants. she teaches anthropology here at the university of texas. professor, when were the first large scale immigration of mexicans into the united states -- when did those occur? >> okay. since 1848 when the border was formed there was always an ongoing movement of mexican people. but it's not until 1910 that we have really large scale immigration basically due to the mexican revolution. but even then it had already started in the late 1990s due to a lot of economic agreements that that the u.s. had with mexico that really impoverished the mexican people. and when the economy is bad in mexico, they begin to migrate. >> and you focus on texas. what was the reaction in texas to the large

. >> martha menchaca to read we've been talking with her. naturalizing mexican immigrants is her most recent book. thank you for being on book tv. >> thank you. >>> jeremy talked to booktv about his new book liberty's carvin to read the interview which took place at the university of texas austin >> professor jeremy, what is nation-building? >> it is the effort to actually get involved in another society and held that society in prove itself as you improve yourself as well. >> who does the nation-building? >> one of the points i make is that nation-building is actually being part of a process that involves bringing americans to another society not dictating to another society but working with people on another society. it's americans and citizens of another society working together. spec the guardian is your most recent book and i want to read just a portion.