Tejano West Texas
By: Arnoldo De Leon
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781623492908; 9781623493059
Subjects: Mexican Americans; History
Description: Featuring a side of Tejano history too often neglected, author Arnoldo De Leon 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( pages 169-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Investigating West Texas Tejano history; title: Forgotten pobladores: blazing frontiers in West Texas, circa 1770s to 1890s; title: Reversals: racial conflict and Tejano adaptation, 1880 to 1890s; title: Education, literacy, and occupational structure in West Texas, 1860-1900; title: Tejanos in West Texas; title: Mexican Americans in the Edwards Plateau and Trans-Pecos region, 1900-2000: a demographic study; title: Tejanos in northwest Texas: rural folks or urbanites?; title: Blowout 1910 style: a Chicano school boycott in West Texas; title: Los tasinques and the Sheep Shearers' Union of North America: a strike in West Texas, 1934; title: Wartime USA: West Texas Tejanos in World War II and Korea; title: Eva Camunez Tucker: Hispanic philanthropist in the Concho country; title: Maria Cardenas: San Angelo Chicano-era activist.