Tejano West Texas / Arnoldo De Leon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De León, Arnoldo, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Texas, West--History.

Mexican Americans.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station, [Texas] : Texas A&M University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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 collection begins in the 1770s when settlers of Mexican descent first began migrating to Presidio and then to other sections of the Big Bend. De León then turns his attention to the nineteenth century when Mexican immigrants and other Texans searched for work throughout the West Texas hinterland, and his coverage continues onward through the twentieth century. Mexican American and Texas history scholars will find Tejano West Texas to be an invaluable addition to the Tejano narrative.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-62349-305-6

OCLC:

913610678