Tejano West Texas
Arnoldo De Leon
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- Edition:
- First edition
- Publication:
- College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2015
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| Location | Call Number | Availability | Request | Notes |
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| F395.M5 D415 2015eb | Checking availability |
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- Summary:
- Featuring a side of Tejano history too often neglected, author Arnoldo De León shows that people of Spanish-Mexican descent were not passive players in or, worse, absent from West Texas history but instead were active agents at the center of it. The collection of essays in Tejano West Texas-many never before published-will correct decades of historiographical oversight by emphasizing the centrality of the Mexican American experience in the history of the region. De León, a true dean of Tejano history, showcases the continued presence and contribution of Mexican Americans to West Texas. This co.
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Investigating West Texas Tejano history
- Forgotten pobladores: blazing frontiers in West Texas, circa 1770s to 1890s
- Reversals: racial conflict and Tejano adaptation, 1880 to 1890s
- Education, literacy, and occupational structure in West Texas, 1860-1900
- Tejanos in West Texas
- Mexican Americans in the Edwards Plateau and Trans-Pecos region, 1900-2000: a demographic study
- Tejanos in northwest Texas: rural folks or urbanites?
- Blowout 1910 style: a Chicano school boycott in West Texas
- Los tasinques and the Sheep Shearers' Union of North America: a strike in West Texas, 1934
- Wartime USA: West Texas Tejanos in World War II and Korea
- Eva Camunez Tucker: Hispanic philanthropist in the Concho country
- Maria Cardenas: San Angelo Chicano-era activist.
- Author/Creator:
- De León, Arnoldo, 1945- , author
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Main Work:
- Other Related Resources:
- Print version: Tejano West Texas [by De León, A.] (College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2015 — ISBN 9781623492908)
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Digital Characteristics:
- text file
- Call Numbers:
- F395.M5 D415 2015eb
- ISBNs:
- 9781623493059 (electronic bk.)
1623493056 (electronic bk.)
9781623492908 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]
1623492904 [Invalid] - OCLC Numbers:
- 913610678