From South Texas To The Nation

Author : John Weber
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469625249

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From South Texas to the Nation by John Weber Pdf

In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, selectively enforcing immigration restrictions, toppling older political arrangements, and periodically immobilizing the workforce, growers created a system of labor controls unique in its levels of exploitation. Ethnic Mexican residents of South Texas fought back by organizing and by leaving, migrating to destinations around the United States where employers eagerly hired them--and continued to exploit them. In From South Texas to the Nation, John Weber reinterprets the United States' record on human and labor rights. This important book illuminates the way in which South Texas pioneered the low-wage, insecure, migration-dependent labor system on which so many industries continue to depend.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1469625253

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From South Texas to the Nation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amelie G. Ramirez,Ian M. Thompson,Leonel Vela
Publisher : Springer
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319002330

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The South Texas Health Status Review by Amelie G. Ramirez,Ian M. Thompson,Leonel Vela Pdf

This book is a roadmap of the exact health disparities that burden the health of South Texas residents, especially Hispanics, compared to the rest of Texas and nation. This type of knowledge has the potential to fuel and motivate researchers and public health leaders to create and shape interventions to reverse those health disparities. Most notably, focus on obesity and diabetes prevention efforts and modifiable risk factors—such as nutrition, reproductive factors and access to health care—has significant potential to reduce the burden of disease in South Texas communities.South Texas, a 38-county region that spans 45,000 square miles along the Texas-Mexico border northward to the area around metropolitan Bexar County (home to San Antonio), is home to 18% of the state’s population. Yet South Texas residents, who are 68% Hispanic, struggle with lower educational levels, less income and less access to health care—and, as a result, suffer from a wide variety of health disparities. To study the health status and identify the exact health disparities that exist in the region, researchers from The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio teamed with researchers from the Texas Department of State Health Services to develop the South Texas Health Status Review.The Review team analyzed a variety of the latest county, state and national data to compare South Texas’ incidence, prevalence and mortality rates for more than 35 health indicators—from cancers to chronic diseases like diabetes to communicable diseases like HIV/AIDS to maternal health and even environmental health—to the rest of Texas and the nation by age, sex, race/ethnicity and rural/urban location.​

Author : John Weber
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477329245

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William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border by John Weber Pdf

An examination of the career of Texas Ranger and immigration official William Hanson illustrating the intersections of corruption, state-building, and racial violence in early twentieth century Texas. At the Texas-Mexico border in the 1910s and 1920s, William Hanson was a witness to, and an active agent of, history. As a Texas Ranger captain and then a top official in the Immigration Service, he helped shape how US policymakers understood the border, its residents, and the movement of goods and people across the international boundary. An associate of powerful politicians and oil company executives, he also used his positions to further his and his patrons' personal interests, financial and political, often through threats and extralegal methods. Hanson’s career illustrates the ways in which legal exclusion, white-supremacist violence, and official corruption overlapped and were essential building blocks of a growing state presence along the border in the early twentieth century. In this book, John Weber reveals Hanson’s cynical efforts to use state and federal power to proclaim the border region inherently dangerous and traces the origins of current nativist politics that seek to demonize the border population. In doing so, he provides insight into how a minor political appointee, motivated by his own ambitions, had lasting impacts on how the border was experienced by immigrants and seen by the nation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : MINN:31951D019248480

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Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources by Anonim Pdf

Author : Catherine E. Puckett Haecker,Paul A. Opler,Peter D. Doran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : IND:30000062893692

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Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources by Catherine E. Puckett Haecker,Paul A. Opler,Peter D. Doran Pdf

Author : Andrew J. Torget
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469624259

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Seeds of Empire by Andrew J. Torget Pdf

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.

Author : Water Resources Council (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : MINN:31951000532560C

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The Nation's Water Resources, 1975-2000: no. 1. New England region by Water Resources Council (U.S.) Pdf

Author : John Mckiernan-González
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352761

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Fevered Measures by John Mckiernan-González Pdf

In Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-González examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.S. health authorities used when facing the threat of epidemic disease. The medical borders created by these officials changed with each contagion and sometimes varied from the existing national borders. Federal officers sought to distinguish Mexican citizens from U.S. citizens, a process troubled by the deeply interconnected nature of border communities. Mckiernan-González uncovers forgotten or ignored cases in which Mexicans, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and other groups were subject to—and sometimes agents of—quarantines, inspections, detentions, and forced-treatment regimens. These cases illustrate the ways that medical encounters shaped border identities before and after the Mexican Revolution. Mckiernan-González also maintains that the threat of disease provided a venue to destabilize identity at the border, enacted processes of racialization, and re-legitimized the power of U.S. policymakers. He demonstrates how this complex history continues to shape and frame contemporary perceptions of the Latino body today.

Author : Federico Peña
Publisher : Federico Pena
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0578925826

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Not Bad for a South Texas Boy by Federico Peña Pdf

Autobiography of Federico Peña including some family history plus additional insights.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1770 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Wetland conservation
ISBN : LOC:00183660536

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Status of the Nation's Wetlands and Laws Related Thereto by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources Pdf

Author : Kenneth P. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190077396

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Texas vs. California by Kenneth P. Miller Pdf

Texas and California are the leaders of Red and Blue America. As the nation has polarized, its most populous and economically powerful states have taken charge of the opposing camps. These states now advance sharply contrasting political and policy agendas and view themselves as competitors for control of the nation's future. Kenneth P. Miller provides a detailed account of the rivalry's emergence, present state, and possible future. First, he explores why, despite their many similarities, the two states have become so deeply divided. As he shows, they experienced critical differences in their origins and in their later demographic, economic, cultural, and political development. Second, he describes how Texas and California have constructed opposing, comprehensive policy models--one conservative, the other progressive. Miller highlights the states' contrasting policies in five areas--tax, labor, energy and environment, poverty, and social issues--and also shows how Texas and California have led the red and blue state blocs in seeking to influence federal policy in these areas. The book concludes by assessing two models' strengths, vulnerabilities, and future prospects. The rivalry between the two states will likely continue for the foreseeable future, because California will surely stay blue and Texas will likely remain red. The challenge for the two states, and for the nation as a whole, is to view the competition in a positive light and turn it to productive ends. Exploring one of the primary rifts in American politics, Texas vs. California sheds light on virtually every aspect of the country's political system.

Author : Samuel Wilson West,William Leslie Broadhurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Groundwater
ISBN : UCR:31210020769426

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Summary Appraisals of the Nation's Ground-water Resources--Rio Grande Region by Samuel Wilson West,William Leslie Broadhurst Pdf

A discussion of ground-water alternatives in water resource planning.

Author : Arnoldo De Len̤
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603445252

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War Along the Border by Arnoldo De Len̤ Pdf

Scholars contributing to this volume consider topics ranging from the effects of the Mexican Revolution on Tejano and African American communities to its impact on Texas' economy and agriculture. Other essays consider the ways that Mexican Americans north of the border affected the course of the revolution itself. .

Author : Jennifer R. Nájera
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292767553

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The Borderlands of Race by Jennifer R. Nájera Pdf

Throughout much of the twentieth century, Mexican Americans experienced segregation in many areas of public life, but the structure of Mexican segregation differed from the strict racial divides of the Jim Crow South. Factors such as higher socioeconomic status, lighter skin color, and Anglo cultural fluency allowed some Mexican Americans to gain limited access to the Anglo power structure. Paradoxically, however, this partial assimilation made full desegregation more difficult for the rest of the Mexican American community, which continued to experience informal segregation long after federal and state laws officially ended the practice. In this historical ethnography, Jennifer R. Nájera offers a layered rendering and analysis of Mexican segregation in a South Texas community in the first half of the twentieth century. Using oral histories and local archives, she brings to life Mexican origin peoples' experiences with segregation. Through their stories and supporting documentary evidence, Nájera shows how the ambiguous racial status of Mexican origin people allowed some of them to be exceptions to the rule of Anglo racial dominance. She demonstrates that while such exceptionality might suggest the permeability of the color line, in fact the selective and limited incorporation of Mexicans into Anglo society actually reinforced segregation by creating an illusion that the community had been integrated and no further changes were needed. Nájera also reveals how the actions of everyday people ultimately challenged racial/racist ideologies and created meaningful spaces for Mexicans in spheres historically dominated by Anglos.