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Cemeteries of ambivalent desire : unearthing deep South narratives from a Texas graveyard / Marie Theresa Hernandez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hernández, Marie Theresa, 1952-
- Series:
- University of Houston series in Mexican American studies.
- University of Houston series in Mexican American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- San Isidro Cemetery (Sugar Land, Tex.).
- Ethnology--Texas--Fort Bend County.
- Ethnology.
- Mexican Americans--Texas--Fort Bend County--History.
- Mexican Americans.
- Fort Bend County (Tex.)--History.
- Fort Bend County (Tex.).
- Fort Bend County (Tex.)--Ethnic relations.
- Sugar Land (Tex.)--History.
- Sugar Land (Tex.).
- Fort Bend County (Tex.)--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From San Isidro Cemetery, a burial place for Latino workers, the author pieces together a narrative of the lives and struggles of the Mexican American community that formed her heritage. She also provides visual images to spur the reader's imagination and anchor the narrative in historical reality.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter one Cementerios
- Chapter two The Manifested Destiny of History
- Chapter three The Colonel
- Chapter four River of the Demonic: The Brazos
- Chapter five The Warrior
- Chapter six Litigation
- Chapter seven Re-Membering in the Land of Oz
- Conclusion Monticello in Texas
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60344-387-8
- OCLC:
- 680627947
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