Browsing by Subject "Mexican Americans--Texas"
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Item Mexican Americans in Texas: Notable Works, 1990-1996(Benson Latin American Collection, 1997-05) Gutiérrez, MargoThis bibliography updates Biblionoticias No. 55, Mexican Americans in Texas: Notable Works, 1985-1989 and, with few exceptions, lists only published works that treat historical and social science topics relating to the Mexican American presence in Texas, from the Spanish colonial period to the present. Other titles that treat topics integral to the Mexican American cultural landscape are also included.Item Red, brown and blue: a history and cultural poetics of high school football in Mexican American(2005) Huerta, Joel; Abzug, Robert H.; Limón, José EduardoHigh school athletics played an important role in the social, cultural, and political life of 20th century Texas. Football was especially popular. In south Texas, a region with a majority Mexican American population, school athletics served to maintain segregation between white and brown students and also to test its limits and viability. Small town institutions like the football team and the marching band were some of the first areas to experiment with inter-ethnic mixing. For the most part experiments proved successful. They helped pave the way for more substantive social and educational reforms. In the second half of the century Mexican Americans gave their own inflection to the football game. They blended traditional Mexican verbal arts forms like jests and playful insults with more conventional sports discourse. In the Lower Rio Grande Valley fans also composed corridos, traditional Mexican ballads, in honor of town and team. In this dissertation I use two major strategies: historical research and ethnography. Data have been collected from archives, newspapers, school yearbooks, interviews, fieldwork, and radio. This dissertation contributes to American and Chicano studies by presenting data and analysis from largely unexplored areas: the role of youth sports in the civil rights process and the formation of identity; and the expressive culture and folklore of Mexican American sports fans.Item Social life in Cameron, Starr, and Zapata counties(1930) Mireles, Jovita González, 1904-1983; Barker, Eugene C. (Eugene Campbell), 1874-1956Item The Texas-Mexico Border Region: Classic Works and Recent Publications(Benson Latin American Collection, 1999-05) Benavides, AdánThis multidisciplinary bibliography of works on the Texas-Mexico border area reflects the continuing prominence of the region in national and binational affairs. Most were published in the 1990s, but a few classic works are also listed. The items represent the social and health sciences; the cultural aspects of art, music, folklore, and literature; sources for environmental studies, history, and economics; and the increasingly useful information available through electronic media. Most items, moreover, emphasize the Texas side of the border.Item Undocumented and Immigrant Children in the United States and their Right to Education: Selected Sources(Benson Latin American Collection, 1991-05) Crowley, Danelle"Undocumented children" refers to minors not born in the United States who lack proper documentation for residency. Their right to an education in the public school district where they lived was relatively unchallenged until the Texas legislature passed a law in 1975 which allowed free public education only to citizens and legally admitted alien children. A legal challenge to this law eventually arrived at the U.S. Supreme Court and a decision was handed down in 1982. Sources listed here in chronological order of publication document some of the issues and legal decision surrounding this controversy and discuss the current status, problems, and perceptions of undocumented and other immigrant students, their families, and educators.