Las Tejanas : 300 years of history / Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acosta, Teresa Palomo.

Contributor:

Winegarten, Ruthe.

Series:

Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; no. 10.

Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; no. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American women--Texas--History.

Mexican American women.

Mexican American women--Texas--Social conditions.

Ethnic relations.

Social conditions.

History.

Texas--History.

Texas.

Texas--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xvii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2003.

Summary:

Since the early 1700s, women of Spanish/Mexican origin or descent have played a central, if often unacknowledged, role in Texas history. Tejanas have been community builders, political and religious leaders, founders of organizations, committed trade unionists, innovative educators, astute businesswomen, experienced professionals, and highly original artists. Giving their achievements the recognition they have long deserved, this groundbreaking book is at once a general history and a celebration of Tejanas' contributions to Texas over three centuries, as well as a highly readable account of their human, economic, and political struggles and triumphs.

Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten have gathered and distilled a wide range of information to create this important resource. They offer one of the first detailed accounts of Tejanas' lives in the colonial period and from the Republic of Texas up to 1900. Drawing on the fuller documentation that exists for the twentieth century, they also examine many aspects of the modern Tejana experience, including Tejanas' contributions to education, business and the professions, faith and community, politics, and the arts. A large selection of photographs, a historical time line, and profiles of fifty notable Tejanas complete the volume and assure its usefulness for a broad general audience, as well as for educators and historians.

Contents:

Native women, Mestizas, and colonists

The status of women in the colonial period

From the Republic of Texas to 1900

Revolution, racism, and resistance, 1900-1940

Life in rural Texas, 1900-1940

Life in urban Texas, 1900-1940

Education: learning, teaching, leading

Entering business and the professions

Faith and community

Politics, the Chicano movement, and Tejana feminism

Winning and holding public office

Arts and culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-408) and index.

ISBN:

0292747101

0292705271

OCLC:

50064976