Texan Identities

Author : Light Townsend Cummins,Mary L. Scheer
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574416480

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Texan Identities by Light Townsend Cummins,Mary L. Scheer Pdf

Texan Identities rests on the assumption that Texas has distinctive identities that define “what it means to be Texan,” and that these identities flow from myth and memory. Each contributor to this volume provides in some fashion an answer to the following questions: What does it mean to be Texan? What constitutes a Texas identity and how may such change over time? What myths, memories, and fallacies contribute to making a Texas identity, and how have these changed for Texas? Are all the myths and memories that define Texas identity true or are some of them fallacious? Is there more than one Texas identity? Many Texans do believe the story of their state’s development manifesting singular, unique attributes, which are prone to expression as stereotypical, iconic representations of what it means to be Texan. Each of the essays in this volume addresses particular events, places, and people in Texas history and how they are related to Texas identity, myth, and memory. The discussion begins with the idealized narrative and icons revolving around the Texas Revolution, most especially the Alamo. The Texas Rangers in myth and memory are also explored. Other essays expand on traditional and increasingly outdated interpretations of the Anglo-American myth of Texas by considering little known roles played by women, racial minorities, and specific stereotypes such as the cattleman.

Author : Barry Shank
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819572677

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Dissonant Identities by Barry Shank Pdf

Music of the bars and clubs of Austin, Texas has long been recognized as defining one of a dozen or more musical "scenes" across the country. In Dissonant Identities, Barry Shank, himself a musician who played and lived in the Texas capital, studies the history of its popular music, its cultural and economic context, and also the broader ramifications of that music as a signifying practice capable of transforming identities. While his focus is primarily on progressive country and rock, Shank also writes about traditional country, blues, rock, disco, ethnic, and folk musics. Using empirical detail and an expansive theoretical framework, he shows how Austin became the site for "a productive contestation between two forces: the fierce desire to remake oneself through musical practice, and the equally powerful struggle to affirm the value of that practice in the complexly structured late-capitalist marketplace."

Author : John D. Garrigus,Christopher Morris
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781603441926

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Assumed Identities by John D. Garrigus,Christopher Morris Pdf

With the recent election of the nation’s first African American president—an individual of blended Kenyan and American heritage who spent his formative years in Hawaii and Indonesia—the topic of transnational identity is reaching the forefront of the national consciousness in an unprecedented way. As our society becomes increasingly diverse and intermingled, it is increasingly imperative to understand how race and heritage impact our perceptions of and interactions with each other. Assumed Identities constitutes an important step in this direction. However, “identity is a slippery concept,” say the editors of this instructive volume. This is nowhere more true than in the melting pot of the early trans-Atlantic cultures formed in the colonial New World during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. As the studies in this volume show, during this period in the trans-Atlantic world individuals and groups fashioned their identities but also had identities ascribed to them by surrounding societies. The historians who have contributed to this volume investigate these processes of multiple identity formation, as well as contemporary understandings of them. Originating in the 2007 Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures presented at the University of Texas at Arlington, Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World examines, among other topics, perceptions of racial identity in the Chesapeake community, in Brazil, and in Saint-Domingue (colonial-era Haiti). As the contributors demonstrate, the cultures in which these studies are sited helped define the subjects’ self-perceptions and the ways others related to them.

Author : Andrés Reséndez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0521543193

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Changing National Identities at the Frontier by Andrés Reséndez Pdf

This book explores how the diverse and fiercely independent peoples of Texas and New Mexico came to think of themselves as members of one particular national community or another in the years leading up to the Mexican-American War. Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and crucial identity decisions against the backdrop of two structural transformations taking place in the region during the first half of the 19th century and often pulling in opposite directions.

Author : David M. Wrobel,Michael C. Steiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040615976

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Many Wests by David M. Wrobel,Michael C. Steiner Pdf

What does it mean to live in the West today? Do people tend to identify with states, with regions, or with the larger West? This book examines the development of regional identity in the American West, demonstrating that it is a regionally diverse entity made up of many different wests--Great Plains, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, and more--in which American regionalism finds its fullest expression. These fourteen original essays tell how a sense of place emerged among residents of various regions and how a sense of those places was developed by people outside of them. Wrobel and Steiner first offer a compelling overview of the West's regional nature; then thirteen other rising or renowned scholars-from history, American Studies, geography, and literature-tell how regional consciousness formed among inhabitants of particular regions. All of the essays address the larger issue of the centrality of place in determining social and cultural forms and individual and collective identities. Some focus on race and culture as the primary influences on regional consciousness while others emphasize environmental and economic factors or the influence of literature. Some even examine western regionalism in areas that lie beyond the West as it has traditionally been conceived. Each of the contributors believes that where a people live helps determine what they are, and they write not only about the many wests within the larger West, but also about the constant state of flux in which regionalism exists. Many books speak of the West as a place, but few others deal with the West's different places. Many Wests presents a vision of the West that reflects both the common heritage and unique character of each major subregion, building on the revisionist impulse of the last decade to help redirect New Western History toward an appreciation of regional diversity and integrate scholarship in the regional subfields. It is a book for everyone who lives in, studies, or loves the West, for it confirms that it is home to very different peoples, economies, histories-and regions.

Author : Walter L. Buenger,Walter D. Kamphoefner
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623497132

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Preserving German Texan Identity by Walter L. Buenger,Walter D. Kamphoefner Pdf

Born in Millheim, Texas, to a family of German immigrants who moved to Texas in the wake of the 1848 revolution, William Andreas Trenckmann was a teacher, journalist, and publisher who successfully combined his German heritage with a new, distinctly Texan identity. His education was cultivated at the brand new Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, where he distinguished himself as the valedictorian of the first graduating class; he later served on the college’s board of directors and was even offered the presidency. From 1907 to 1909, he represented Austin County in the Texas legislature. Trenckmann’s lasting contribution to Texas history, however, was the creation of Das Wochenblatt, a German-language weekly newspaper that he edited and published for over forty years. Das Wochenblatt became a popular and respected source of information for German-speaking immigrants, their descendants, and the Texas communities where they lived and worked. Through the paper, Trenckmann advocated for civil liberties and free elections. He also vigorously opposed prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan, and later the rise of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism. When the United States entered World War I, many German-language publications were suspended or otherwise heavily censored, but Trenckmann’s newspaper was granted a rare exemption from the wartime government. From 1931 to 1933, Trenckmann serialized his memoirs, Erlebtes und Beobachtetes, or “experiences and observations.” In Preserving German Texan Identity, historians Walter L. Buenger and Walter D. Kamphoefner present a revised and annotated translation of those memoirs as a revealing window into the lives of German Texans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Texas. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044078588985

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Texas Reports by Texas. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : Eve Hayes de Kalaf
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785277665

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Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic by Eve Hayes de Kalaf Pdf

This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in promoting the universal provision of legal identity in the Dominican Republic with arbitrary measures to restrict access to citizenship paperwork from populations of (largely, but not exclusively) Haitian descent. The book highlights the current gap in global policy that overlooks the possible alienating effects of social inclusion measures promulgated by international organisations, particularly in countries that discriminate against migrant-descended populations. It also supports concerns regarding the dangers of identity management, noting that as administrative systems improve, new insecurities and uncertainties can develop. Crucially, the book provides a cautionary tale over the rapid expansion of identification practices, offering a timely critique of global policy measures which aim to provide all people everywhere with a legal identity in the run-up to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Author : Texas,John Sayles,Henry Sayles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Civil law
ISBN : UOM:35112204583019

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Sayles' Annotated Civil Statutes of the State of Texas by Texas,John Sayles,Henry Sayles Pdf

Author : Texas. Court of Civil Appeals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : IOWA:31858017011515

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The Texas Civil Appeals Reports by Texas. Court of Civil Appeals Pdf

Author : Alexander Stuart Walker,Britain Rice Webb,Alfred Ernest Wilkinson,John A. Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112102540673

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The Texas Civil Appeals Reports by Alexander Stuart Walker,Britain Rice Webb,Alfred Ernest Wilkinson,John A. Martin Pdf

Author : John Shepherd,David Horn,Dave Laing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0826474365

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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 2 Locations (5 Vol Set) by John Shepherd,David Horn,Dave Laing Pdf

"EPMOW lives music. Put another way, it does for popular music what Grove has done for classical" David Brackett ‘Excellent, readable and thoroughly useful...While some previous single-volume and multivolume works have addressed the development and current state of popular music, none has done so with this work's depth of scholarship and global reach. Scholarly, clearly written, and well indexed, it is an ideal reference set.' Library Journal Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World's five-volume work ‘Locations' is the most authoritative reference work on the history and current practice of popular music ever published. The five volumes on ‘Locations' that form Part 2 of this multi-volume work follow on from the two volumes of Part 1: Media, Industry and Society (Volume I) and Performance and Production (Volume II) . They cover over 200 nation states and are organized according to continental regions: Volume III: Caribbean and Latin America Volume IV: North America Volume V: Asia and Oceania Volume VI: Africa and the Middle East Volume VII: Europe Each discusses the history, development and current practice of popular music in cities, districts, cross-border regions, nation states and diasporic communities around the world. Includes coverage of:- The historical, geographical, demographical, political, economic and cultural context- Genres for which the location is known or which have been important to the development and current practice of its popular music- Significant venues such as theatres, dance halls, clubs and bars- The role of the industry: music publishers, record companies/labels, recording studios, radio and TV- The role of the state and government regulatory bodies- The teaching and research of popular music in educational institutions- Songs associated with the location- Notable performers and other practitioners such as producers, engineers, technological innovators, record company heads, journalists, critics and scholars, songwriters, composers and lyricists. 250 leading popular music scholars and practitioners have contributed over 500 entries. They include Rafael José de Menezes Bastos on Brazil, Peter Manuel on India and the Caribbean Islands, John Collins on Ghana, Moya Aliya Malamusi on Malawi, Tôru Mitsui on Japan, Motti Regev on Israel, Martin Stokes on Turkey, Richard Peterson on Nashville, Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman on Hawai'I, Bruce Johnson on Australia, Paolo Prato on Italy, Svanibor Pettan on Croatia and Alf Björnberg on Sweden. For more information please visit: www.continuumpopmusic.com

Author : Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Legislative journals
ISBN : NYPL:33433011260027

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Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Texas by Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Culture
ISBN : UOM:39015074218887

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Ethnicity by Anonim Pdf

Volume 4: Myth, manners, and memory. This volume addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice.

Author : Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals,Alexander M. Jackson,Alexander M. Jackson (Jr.),Sam Andrew Willson,John Preston White,Rudolph Kleberg,W. W. Nelms,W. C. Wear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : UOM:35112103886133

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The Texas Criminal Reports by Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals,Alexander M. Jackson,Alexander M. Jackson (Jr.),Sam Andrew Willson,John Preston White,Rudolph Kleberg,W. W. Nelms,W. C. Wear Pdf