Recovering the Hispanic history of Texas
By: edited by Monica Perales and Raúl A. Ramos.
Contributors: Perales, Monica.; Ramos, Raúl A.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houston, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781558855915
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Texas -- History; Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Historiography; Mexican American women -- Texas -- History; Mexican American women -- Texas -- Historiography; Hispanic Americans -- Texas -- History; Hispanic Americans -- Texas -- Historiography; Texas -- History; Texas -- Historiography; Texas -- Ethnic relations; Texas -- Social conditions
Description: Overview: The eight essays included in this volume examine the dominant narrative of Texas history and seek to establish a record that includes both Mexican men and women, groups whose voices have been notably absent from the history books. Finding documents that reflect the experiences of those outside of the mainstream culture is difficult, since historical archives tend to contain materials produced by the privileged and governing classes of society. The contributing scholars make a case for expanding the notion of archives to include alternative sources. By utilizing oral histories, Spanish-language writings and periodicals, folklore, photographs, and other personal materials, it becomes possible to recreate a history that includes a significant part of the state's population, the Mexican community that lived in the area long before its absorption into the United States. These articles, originally presented as part of the Hispanic History of Texas Project's first conference held in conjunction with the Texas State Historical Association's annual conference in 2008, primarily explore themes within the field of Chicano/a Studies. Divided into three sections, Creating Social Landscapes, Racialized Identities, and Unearthing Voices, the pieces cover issues as diverse as the Mexican-American Presbyterian community, the female voice in the history of the Texas borderlands, and Tejano roots on the Louisiana-Texas border in the 18th and 19th centuries. In their introduction, editors Monica Perales and Raul A. Ramos write that the scholars, in their exploration of the state's history, go beyond the standard categories of immigration, assimilation, and the nation state. Instead, they forge new paths into historical territories by exploring gender and sexuality, migration, transnationalism, and globalization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Building a project to expand Texas history / Monica Perales and Raúl  A. Ramos; title: Creating social landscapes; title: Lost in translation : Tejano roots on the Louisiana-Texas borderlands, 1716-1821 / Francis X. Gala; title: "It can be cultivated where nothing but cactus will grow" : local knowledge and healing on the Texas military frontier / Mark Allan Goldberg; title: Las escuelas del centenario in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato : internationalizing Mexican history / Emilio Zamora; title: Racialized identities; title: Enriching Rodríguez : Alberta Zepeda Snid of Edgewood / Virginia Raymond; title: The schools of Crystal City : a Chicano experiment in change / Dennis J. Bixler-Márquez; title: Unearthing voices; title: Mucho cuidado! : silencing, selectivity, and sensibility in the utilization of Tejano voices by Texas historians / James E. Crisp; title: Rev. Gregorio M. Valenzuela and the Mexican-American Presbyterian community of Texas / Norma Mouton; title: The female voice in the history of the Texas borderlands : Leonor Villegas de Magnón and Jovita Idar / Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara.