Hispanic Texas

Author : Helen Simons
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0292777094

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A Guide to Hispanic Texas by Helen Simons Pdf

Hispanic culture is woven into all aspects of Texas life, from mission-style architecture to the highly popular Tex-Mex cuisine, from ranching and rodeo traditions to the Catholic religion. So common are these Hispanic influences, in fact, that they have been widely accepted as a part of everyone's heritage, comfortingly familiar and distinctively Texan. This new edition of Hispanic Texas contains all the guidebook entries of the original volume in a compact format perfect for taking along on trips throughout the state. Entries are arranged by region: San Antonio and South Texas Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley El Paso and Trans-Pecos Texas Austin and Central Texas Houston and Southeast Texas Dallas and North Texas Lubbock and the Plains Within each region, a city-by-city listing details the historic and modern sites and structures that bear Hispanic influence. Descriptions of local festivals and events, public art, museums, natural areas, and scenic drives enhance the entries, which are also profusely illustrated with historic and modern photographs and other illustrations.

Author : Martha Menchaca
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477324370

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The Mexican American Experience in Texas by Martha Menchaca Pdf

A historical overview of Mexican Americans' social and economic experiences in Texas For hundreds of years, Mexican Americans in Texas have fought against political oppression and exclusion—in courtrooms, in schools, at the ballot box, and beyond. Through a detailed exploration of this long battle for equality, this book illuminates critical moments of both struggle and triumph in the Mexican American experience. Martha Menchaca begins with the Spanish settlement of Texas, exploring how Mexican Americans’ racial heritage limited their incorporation into society after the territory’s annexation. She then illustrates their political struggles in the nineteenth century as they tried to assert their legal rights of citizenship and retain possession of their land, and goes on to explore their fight, in the twentieth century, against educational segregation, jury exclusion, and housing covenants. It was only in 1967, she shows, that the collective pressure placed on the state government by Mexican American and African American activists led to the beginning of desegregation. Menchaca concludes with a look at the crucial roles that Mexican Americans have played in national politics, education, philanthropy, and culture, while acknowledging the important work remaining to be done in the struggle for equality.

Author : Donald E. Chipman,Harriet Denise Joseph
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292782631

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Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 by Donald E. Chipman,Harriet Denise Joseph Pdf

This revised and expanded edition of the authoritative history of Spanish Texas features significant new discoveries throughout. Modern Texas, like Mexico, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between Europeans and Indians. Unlike Mexico, however, Texas eventually received the stamp of Anglo-American culture, so that Spanish contributions to present-day Texas tend to be obscured or even unknown. Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 undercores the significance of the Spanish period in Texas history. Beginning with an overview of the land and its inhabitants before the arrival of Europeans, it covers major people and events from early exploration to the end of the colonial era. This new edition of Spanish Texas has been extensively revised and expanded to include a wealth of new discoveries. The opening chapter on Texas Indians reveals their high degree of independence from European influence. Other chapters incorporate new information on La Salle's Garcitas Creek colony and French influences in Texas, the destruction of the San Sabá mission and the Spanish punitive expedition to the Red River in the late 1750s, and eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms in the Americas. Drawing on new and original research, the authors shed new light on the experience of women in Spanish Texas across ethnic, racial, and class distinctions, including new revelations about their legal rights on the Texas frontier.

Author : Monica Perales
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : 9781611922615

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Recovering the Hispanic History of Texas by Monica Perales Pdf

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 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 Raúl 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.

Author : Betty Eakle Dobkins
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292772113

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The Spanish Element in Texas Water Law by Betty Eakle Dobkins Pdf

The Spanish element in Texas water law is a matter of utmost importance to many landholders whose livelihood is dependent on securing water for irrigation and to many communities particularly concerned about water supply. Titles to some 280,000 acres of Texas land originated in grants made by the Crown of Spain or by the Republic of Mexico. For these lands, the prevailing law, even today, is the Hispanic American civil law. Thus the question of determining just what water rights were granted by the Spanish Crown in disposing of lands in Texas is more than a matter of historical interest. It is a subject of great practical importance. Spanish law enters directly into the question of these lands, but its influence is by no means confined to them. Texas water law in general traces its roots primarily to the Spanish law, not to the English common law doctrine of riparian rights or to the Western doctrine of prior appropriation (both of which were, however, eventually incorporated in Texas law). A clear understanding of this background might have saved the state much of the current confusion and chaos regarding its water law. Dobkins’s book offers an intensive and unusually readable study of the subject. The author has traced water law from its origin in the ancient world to the mid-twentieth century, interpreting the effect of water on the counties concerned, setting forth in detail the development of water law in Spain, and explaining its subsequent adoption in Texas. Copious notes and a complete bibliography make the work especially valuable. The idea for this book came in the midst of the great seven-year drought in Texas, from 1950 to 1957. The author gave two reasons for her study: “One was my belief that the water problems, crucial to all Texas, can be solved only when Texans become conscious of their imperative needs and only if they become informed and aroused enough to act. “The second reason came from a realization that water—common, universal, and ordinary as it is—had been overlooked by the historian. It is high time that this oversight be corrected. In American history the significance of land, especially in terms of the frontier, has been spelled out in large letters. The importance of water has been recognized by few.”

Author : Paul Barton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292782914

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Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas by Paul Barton Pdf

The question of how one can be both Hispanic and Protestant has perplexed Mexican Americans in Texas ever since Anglo-American Protestants began converting their Mexican Catholic neighbors early in the nineteenth century. Mexican-American Protestants have faced the double challenge of being a religious minority within the larger Mexican-American community and a cultural minority within their Protestant denominations. As they have negotiated and sought to reconcile these two worlds over nearly two centuries, los Protestantes have melded Anglo-American Protestantism with Mexican-American culture to create a truly indigenous, authentic, and empowering faith tradition in the Mexican-American community. This book presents the first comparative history of Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas. Covering a broad sweep from the 1830s to the 1990s, Paul Barton examines how Mexican-American Protestant identities have formed and evolved as los Protestantes interacted with their two very different communities in the barrio and in the Protestant church. He looks at historical trends and events that affected Mexican-American Protestant identity at different periods and discusses why and how shifts in los Protestantes' sense of identity occurred. His research highlights the fact that while Protestantism has traditionally served to assimilate Mexican Americans into the dominant U.S. society, it has also been transformed into a vehicle for expressing and transmitting Hispanic culture and heritage by its Mexican-American adherents.

Author : Donald E. Chipman,Harriett Denise Joseph
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780292793156

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Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas by Donald E. Chipman,Harriett Denise Joseph Pdf

In Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas, Donald Chipman and Harriett Joseph combined dramatic, real-life incidents, biographical sketches, and historical background to reveal the real human beings behind the legendary figures who discovered, explored, and settled Spanish Texas from 1528 to 1821. Drawing from their earlier book and adapting the language and subject matter to the reading level and interests of middle and high school students, the authors here present the men and women of Spanish Texas for young adult readers and their teachers. These biographies demonstrate how much we have in common with our early forebears. Profiled in this book are: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: Ragged Castaway Francisco Vázquez de Coronado: Golden Conquistador María de Agreda: Lady in Blue Alonso de León: Texas Pathfinder Domingo Terán de los Ríos / Francisco Hidalgo: Angry Governor and Man with a Mission Louis St. Denis / Manuela Sánchez: Cavalier and His Bride Antonio Margil de Jesús: God's Donkey Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo: Chicken War Redeemer Felipe de Rábago y Terán: Sinful Captain José de Escandón y Elguera: Father of South Texas Athanase de Mézières: Troubled Indian Agent Domingo Cabello: Comanche Peacemaker Marqués de Rubí / Antonio Gil Ibarvo: Harsh Inspector and Father of East Texas Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara / Joaquín de Arredondo: Rebel Captain and Vengeful Royalist Women in Colonial Texas: Pioneer Settlers Women and the Law: Rights and Responsibilities

Author : Thomas H. Kreneck
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603446921

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Del Pueblo by Thomas H. Kreneck Pdf

Though relatively small in number until the latter decades of the nineteenth century, Houston'sHispanic population possesses a rich and varied history that has previously not been readily associated in the popular imagination with Houston. However, in 1989, the first edition of Thomas H. Kreneck’s Del Pueblo vividly captured the depth and breadth of Houston’s Hispanic people, illustrating both the obstacles and the triumphs that characterized this vital community’s rise to prominence during the twentieth century. This new, revised edition of Del Pueblo: A History of Houston’s Hispanic Community updates that vibrant history, incorporating research on trends and changes through the beginning of the new millennium. Especially important in this new edition are Kreneck’s historical contextualization of the 1980s as the “Decade of the Hispanic” and his documentation of other significant developments taking place since the publication of the original edition. Illustrated with seventy-five photographs of significant people, places, and events, this new edition of Del Pueblo: A History of Houston’s Hispanic Community updates the unfolding story of one of the nation’s most influential and dynamic ethnic groups. Students and scholars of Mexican American and Hispanic issues and culture, as well as general readers interested in this important aspect of Houston and regional history, will not want to be without this important book.

Author : Alejandra Balestra,Glenn A. MartÕnez,Maria Irene Moyna
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781611922684

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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Linguistic Heritage by Alejandra Balestra,Glenn A. MartÕnez,Maria Irene Moyna Pdf

In this fascinating exploration of the development of the Spanish language from a sociohistorical perspective in the territory that has become the United States, linguists and editors Balestra, Martcop. {Uhorn}nez, and Moyna draw attention to the long tradition of multilingualism in the United States in the hope of putting to rest the myth that the U.S. was ever a monolingual nation.

Author : Nicolàs Kanellos,Claudia Esteva-Fabregat,Thomas Weaver
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1611921619

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Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Anthropology by Nicolàs Kanellos,Claudia Esteva-Fabregat,Thomas Weaver Pdf

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project is a national project to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the United States.

Author : Arnoldo De León
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007139660

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Mexican Americans in Texas by Arnoldo De León Pdf

Like its ground-breaking predecessor, the first general survey of Tejanos, this completely up-to-date revision is a concise political, cultural, and social history of Mexican Americans in Texas from the Spanish colonial era to the present. Professor De Len is careful to portray Tejanos as active subjects, not merely objects in the ongoing Texas story. Complemented by a stunning photographic essay, a helpful glossary, and meticulously annotated, this work continues to be ideal reading for anyone wanting to learn about the most influential ethnic group in Texas.

Author : Edward W. Fernandez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU66859204

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The Hispanic Population of the U.S. Southwest Borderland by Edward W. Fernandez Pdf

Presents data for the U.S. southwest borderland. Tables contrast figures for Hispanics with non-Hispanics in the borderland. They also contrast populations inside with those outside the borderland.

Author : Rafael Emilio Tarragó
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0810828820

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Early U.S.-Hispanic Relations, 1776-1860 by Rafael Emilio Tarragó Pdf

Tarrago goes back to 1776, when the thirteen rebel English colonies in North America sought the help of the Spanish Crown. A selective bibliography, including many printed primary sources, as well as monographs and journal articles.

Author : Jose Aranda,Silvio Torres-Saillant
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611922658

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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume IV by Jose Aranda,Silvio Torres-Saillant Pdf

This historic fourth volume of articles represents the finished, re-worked product of the biennial conferences of recovery, providing theoretical and practical approaches, and critical studies on specific texts. Jose Aranda and Silvio Torres-Saillant's introduction conceptualizes and unifies a broad historical swath that encompasses the Spanish and English-language expression of Hispanic natives, immigrants and exiles from the colonial period to 1960.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : LOC:00089427058

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Hispanic Access to Higher Education by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education Pdf