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  • Civil Rights in Black and Brown

    Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas

    Edited by Max Krochmal, Todd Moye ...
    **2022 Best Book Award, Oral History AssociationHundreds of stories of activists at the front lines of the intersecting African American and Mexican American liberation struggle**Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth-century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. Far from the gaze of the national media, African American and Mexican American ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Blue Texas

    The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era

    by Max Krochmal ...
    Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
    This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracy in Texas, when African American, Mexican American, and white labor and community activists gradually came together ... Read more

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    A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

    John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the ... Read more

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  • Quixote's Soldiers

    A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981

    Series Book 26 - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    "Detail[s] the grassroots interplay among the variety of ideologies, individuals, and organizations that made up the Chicano movement in San Antonio, Texas." – Journal of American HistoryIn the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

    For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native ... Read more

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  • The Borderlands of Race

    Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town

    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. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • From South Texas to the Nation

    The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century

    by John Weber ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    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, ... Read more

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  • On the Border

    Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier

    by Tom Miller ...
    Tom Miller's On the Border frames the land between the United States and Mexico as a Third Country, one 2,000 miles long and twenty miles wide. This Third Country has its own laws and its own outlaws. Its music, language, and food are unique. On the Border, a first-person travel narrative, portrays this bi-national culture, "unforgettable to every reader lucky enough to discover this gem of ... Read more

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  • Border Dilemmas

    Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848–1912

    The U.S.-Mexican War officially ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which called for Mexico to surrender more than one-third of its land. The treaty offered Mexicans living in the conquered territory a choice between staying there or returning to Mexico by moving south of the newly drawn borderline. In this fascinating history, Anthony Mora analyzes contrasting ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Listening to Rosita

    The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955

    Series series Race and Culture in the American West Series
    Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by “Momo” Villarreal. It wasn’t about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal’s grandmother insisted. It was about the music—more songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks those quarters bought, the money didn’t hurt.When as an adult Villarreal began to wonder how the few ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • La Calle

    Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City

    On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical, predominantly Mexican American heart of the city, an area most called “la calle.” Here, amid small ... Read more

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  • Smeltertown

    Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community

    Company town. Blighted community. Beloved home. Nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande, at the heart of a railroad, mining, and smelting empire, Smeltertown — La Esmelda, as its residents called it — was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who labored at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas.Using newspapers, personal archives, photographs, employee records, parish ... Read more

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