El Rinche

El Rinche PDF Author: Christopher Carmona
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949299038
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Mexican Tejano families have been living in South Texas for hundreds of years. The completed railroad has brought Anglo settlers seeking new lands by any means necessary. Chonnie's family has been murdered and Mexican Tejanos are being terrorized by a ruthless organization known as the Texas Rangers. What will Chonnie do? Who will he become?

El Rinche

El Rinche PDF Author: Christopher Carmona
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949299038
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
Mexican Tejano families have been living in South Texas for hundreds of years. The completed railroad has brought Anglo settlers seeking new lands by any means necessary. Chonnie's family has been murdered and Mexican Tejanos are being terrorized by a ruthless organization known as the Texas Rangers. What will Chonnie do? Who will he become?

El Rinche

El Rinche PDF Author: Christopher Carmona
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949299229
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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El Rinche Vol. 2: Revolución: In the second volume of the adventures of El Rinche and the gang of heroes, the stakes have never been higher. It is 1911 and the Mexican Revolution rages south of the border. The gang faces off against a villain like they have never encountered. Old allies come back with tragic news. The tragedies of African Americans and Mexicano Tejanos clash with the introduction of a new villain that works to destroy communities of color across the country. This volume introduces new allies such as Aniceto Pizaña, Jovita Idar, Virginia Yeager, and Grant Johnson [the real Tonto].

The Borderlands of Culture

The Borderlands of Culture PDF Author: Ramón Saldívar
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822337898
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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DIVThe definitive life and work of Americo Paredes, the native South Texan poet, novelist, journalist, folklorist, ethnographer and first U.S. theorist of the border./div

Reverberations of Racial Violence

Reverberations of Racial Violence PDF Author: Sonia Hernández
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 147732268X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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Between 1910 and 1920, thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals were killed along the Texas border. The killers included strangers and neighbors, vigilantes and law enforcement officers—in particular, Texas Rangers. Despite a 1919 investigation of the state-sanctioned violence, no one in authority was ever held responsible. Reverberations of Racial Violence gathers fourteen essays on this dark chapter in American history. Contributors explore the impact of civil rights advocates, such as José Tomás Canales, the sole Mexican-American representative in the Texas State Legislature between 1905 and 1921. The investigation he spearheaded emerges as a historical touchstone, one in which witnesses testified in detail to the extrajudicial killings carried out by state agents. Other chapters situate anti-Mexican racism in the context of the era's rampant and more fully documented violence against African Americans. Contributors also address the roles of women in responding to the violence, as well as the many ways in which the killings have continued to weigh on communities of color in Texas. Taken together, the essays provide an opportunity to move beyond the more standard Black-white paradigm in reflecting on the broad history of American nation-making, the nation’s rampant racial violence, and civil rights activism.

Strong Justice

Strong Justice PDF Author: Jon Land
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765363176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Book Description
Fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong learns that only strong justice can save the day when she comes face to face with a serial killer who's left a trail of bodies along the Mexico border.

Américo Paredes

Américo Paredes PDF Author: Manuel Medrano
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574412876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Américo Paredes (1915-1999) was a folklorist, scholar, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who is widely acknowledged as one of the founding scholars of Chicano Studies. Born in Brownsville, Texas, along the southern U.S.-Mexico Border, Paredes’ early experiences impacted his writing during his later years as an academic. He grew up between two worlds—one written about in books, the other sung about in ballads and narrated in folktales. He attended a school system that emphasized conformity and Anglo values in a town whose population was 70 percent Mexican in origin. During World War II, he worked for the International American Red Cross and wrote for the Stars and Stripes army newspaper in the Far East. He returned to Texas with a new bride and a passion for continuing his formal education and his writing. Paredes did both at the University of Texas at Austin, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1956. With the publication of his dissertation, “With His Pistol in His Hand”: A Border Ballad and Its Hero in 1958, Paredes soon emerged as a challenger to the status quo. His book questioned the mythic nature of the Texas Rangers and provided an alternative counter-cultural narrative to the existing traditional narratives of Walter Prescott Webb and J. Frank Dobie, among others. For the next forty years he was a brilliant teacher and prolific writer who championed the preservation of border culture and history. He was a soft-spoken, at times temperamental, yet fearless professor. He was a co-founder in 1970 of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and is credited with introducing the concept of Greater Mexico, decades before its wider acceptance today among transnationalist scholars. He received numerous awards, including La Orden del Aguila Azteca, Mexico’s most prestigious service award to a foreigner. Paredes became a scholar of scholars, guiding many students to become academic leaders. Manuel F. Medrano interviewed Paredes over a five-year period before Paredes’ death in 1999, and also interviewed his family and colleagues. For many Mexican Americans, Paredes’ historical legacy is that he raised, carried, and defended their cultural flag with a dignity that both friends and foes respected.

El Coyote Pinto

El Coyote Pinto PDF Author: Herman Herrera
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662421141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Standing next to the graves of his ancestors in Coyote, New Mexico, A man reflects on the years that have passed with the wind blowing and rain coming. Tears come to his eyes, as he remembers another time, another life. Yet, the same. He steps into a world in his mind, a world now gone, but in his thoughts he is still El Pequeñito—The Little One.

Secession III

Secession III PDF Author: Joe Nobody
Publisher: Kemah Bay Marketing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Book Description
The Mexican cartels are desperate. Since the secession, their human trafficking business has dwindled while the presence of military units along the border makes smuggling a far less lucrative proposition. Like a pack of starving predators, the massive criminal organizations turn on each other, preparing to unleash a bloodbath unlike any the world has seen. Out of the chaos rises a new leader, a man whose reputation for strategic thinking and meticulous planning is known throughout the underworld. He has a plan to overthrow the government in Mexico City and bring the cartels into a new era of dominance and profitability. Best of all, he will make it look like Texas is at fault. Zach and Sam are thrust into the middle of the diabolical scheme, the two Rangers fighting for the very survival of the republic and all she has come to represent.

House and Street

House and Street PDF Author: Sandra Lauderdale Graham
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292727571
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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During the later half of the nineteenth century, a majority of Brazilian women worked, most as domestic servants, either slave or free. House and Street re-creates the working and personal lives of these women, drawing on a wealth of documentation from archival, court, and church records. Lauderdale Graham traces the intricate and ambivalent relations that existed between masters and servants. She shows how for servants the house could be a place of protection—as well as oppression—while the street could be dangerous—but also more autonomous. She integrates her discoveries with larger events taking place in Rio de Janeiro during the period, including the epidemics of the 1850s, the abolition of slavery, the demolition of slums, and major improvements in sanitation during the first decade of the 1900s. House and Street was originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. For this paperback edition, Lauderdale Graham has provided a new introduction.

A Texas-Mexican Cancionero

A Texas-Mexican Cancionero PDF Author: Américo Paredes
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292765580
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
The folksongs of Texas's Mexican population pulsate with the lives of folk heroes, gringos, smugglers, generals, jailbirds, and beautiful women. In his cancionero, or songbook, Américo Paredes presents sixty-six of these songs in bilingual text—along with their music, notes on tempo and performance, and discography. Manuel Peña's new foreword situates these songs within the main currents of Mexican American music.