Author: David J. EatonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The State of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo
Author: David J. EatonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Great River
Author: Paul HorganUtilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande
Author: MexicoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Crystal Frontier
Author: Carlos FuentesPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408837498
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
_______________________ A DRAMATIC FICTIONAL PORTRAIT OF THE US-MEXICO BORDER, MIGRATION, AND ITS IMPACT ON PEOPLE'S LIVES _______________________ Through this network of nine personal stories, Carlos Fuentes sets out to explain Mexico and America to each other – and to the rest of the world. He presents a dramatic fictional portrait of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, as played out in a Mexican dynasty led by a powerful Mexican oligarch with complex ties north of the border. It is the story of Mexican families who send their sons north to provide for whole villages with dollars and of Mexican tycoons who exploit their own people. Young Jose Francisco grows up in Texas, determined to write about the border world – the immigrants and illegals, Mexican poverty and Yankee prosperity – stories to break the stand-off silence with a victory shout, to shatter at last the crystal frontier.
El Mesquite
Author: Elena Zamora O'SheaPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585441082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The open country of Texas between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande was sparsely settled through the nineteenth century, and most of the settlers who did live there had Hispanic names that until recently were rarely admitted into the pages of Texas history. In 1935, however, a descendant of one of the old Spanish land-grant families in the region-a woman, no less-found an ingenious way to publish the history of her region at a time when neither Tejanos nor women had much voice. She told the story from the perspective of an ancient mesquite tree, under whose branches much South Texas history had passed. Her tale became an invaluable source of folk history but has long been out of print. Now, with important new introductions by Leticia M. Garza-Falcón and Andrés Tijerina, the history witnessed by El Mesquite can again inform readers of the way of life that first shaped Texas. Through the voice of the gnarled old tree, Elena Zamora O'Shea tells South Texas political and ethnographic history, filled with details of daily life such as songs, local plants and folk medicines, foods and recipes, peone/patron relations, and the Tejano ranch vocabulary. The work is an important example of the historical-folkloristic literary genre used by Mexican American writers of the period. Using the literary device of the tree's narration, O'Shea raises issues of culture, discrimination, and prejudice she could not have addressed in her own voice in that day and explicitly states the Mexican American ideology of 1930s Texas. The result is a literary and historic work of lasting value, which clearly articulates the Tejano claim to legitimacy in Texas history. ELENA ZAMORA O'SHEA (1880-1951) was born at Rancho La Noria Cardenena near Peñitas, Hidalgo County, Texas. A long-time schoolteacher, whose posts included one on the famous King Ranch, she wrote this book to help Tejano children know and claim their proud heritage.
Capturing Nature
Author: Patsy Pittman LightPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1585446106
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Over a period of some twenty years, Mexican-born artisan Dionicio Rodríguez created imaginative sculptures of reinforced concrete that imitated the natural forms and textures of trees and rocks. He worked in eight different states from 1924 through the early 1950s but spent much of his early career in San Antonio, where several of his creations have become beloved landmarks. More than a dozen of Rodríguez’s works have been included on the National Register of Historic Places. Patsy Pittman Light has spent a decade documenting the trabajo rústico (“rustic work”) of Rodríguez, along with its antecedents in Europe and Mexico, and the subsequent work of those Rodríguez trained in San Antonio. Rodríguez’s unique and unusual art will fascinate those new to it and delight those to whom it is familiar. San Antonio sites such as the bus stop on Broadway, the faux bois bridge in Brackenridge Park, and the “rocks” on the Miraflores Gate at the San Antonio Museum of Art, along with the Old Mill at T. R. Pugh Memorial Park in North Little Rock and Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, are just a few of the locations covered in this volume celebrating the life and work of a Latino artisan. Students and devotees of Texas and Southwestern art will welcome this book and its long-overdue appreciation of this artist. Additionally, this book will commend itself to those interested in Latino studies, art history, and folklore.
Great River: the Rio Grande in North American History
Author: Paul HorganPublisher: Acls History E-Book Project
ISBN: 9781597400633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Rectification of the Rio Grande
Author: Third Phase of the Binational Study Regarding the Presence of Toxic Substances in the Upper Portion of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Between the United States and Mexico
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hazardous wastes
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Treaty with Mexico Relating to the Utilization of the Waters of Certain Rivers
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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