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Author : Anthony Knopp
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738578583
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Charro Days in Brownsville written by Anthony Knopp and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Charro Days in Brownsville boast a rich history.
Author : Anthony Knopp
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738578514
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Charro Days in Brownsville written by Anthony Knopp and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brownsville, Texas, was established in 1850 on the banks of the Rio Grande. Every February since 1938, this thriving community of nearly 200,000 has joined its Mexican neighbor, Matamoros, to celebrate their shared cultural heritage. Charro Days burst upon the Rio Grande Valley scene in the depths of the Depression, bringing dances, parades, fireworks, boat races, and a rodeo to a dispirited populace. The celebration achieved instant success, followed by national recognition in magazines, radio, and television. Renowned dance bands and celebrities increased the enjoyment of revelers dressed in Charro costumes. As time passed, Charro Days evolved with the addition of events such as the Mr. Amigo presentation, which recognizes an outstanding Mexican, and the Sombrero Fest, which attracts a large number of attendees with its diverse entertainment.
Author : Carl S. Chilton
Publisher : HPN Books
ISBN 13 : 1935377159
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Historic Brownsville written by Carl S. Chilton and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of Brownsville, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author : Rüdiger Ahrens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110532913
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Symbolism 17: Latina/o Literature written by Rüdiger Ahrens and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex nature of globalization increasingly requires a comparative approach to literature in order to understand how migration and commodity flows impact aesthetic production and expressive practices. This special issue of Symbolism: An International Journal of Critical Aesthetics explores the trans-American dimensions of Latina/o literature in a trans-Atlantic context. Examining the theoretical implications suggested by the comparison of the global North-global South dynamics of material and aesthetic exchange, this volume highlights emergent Latina/o authors, texts, and methodologies of interest in for comparative literary studies. In the essays, literary scholars address questions of the transculturation, translation, and reception of Latina/o literature in the United States and Europe. In the interviews, emergent Latina/o authors speak to the processes of creative writing in a transnational context. This volume suggests how the trans-American dialogues found in contemporary Latina/o literature elucidates trans-Atlantic critical dialogues.
Author : Louise Ann Fisch
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890967133
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (671 download)
Download or read book All Rise written by Louise Ann Fisch and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an emerging power broker in the predominantly Anglo establishment, Garza personified the new elite in the Mexican American community and in the Democratic Party.
Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292793146
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Tejano South Texas written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the plains between the San Antonio River and the Rio Grande lies the heartland of what is perhaps the largest ethnic region in the United States, Tejano South Texas. In this cultural geography, Daniel Arreola charts the many ways in which Texans of Mexican ancestry have established a cultural province in this Texas-Mexico borderland that is unlike any other Mexican American region. Arreola begins by delineating South Texas as an environmental and cultural region. He then explores who the Tejanos are, where in Mexico they originated, and how and where they settled historically in South Texas. Moving into the present, he examines many factors that make Tejano South Texas distinctive from other Mexican American regions—the physical spaces of ranchos, plazas, barrios, and colonias; the cultural life of the small towns and the cities of San Antonio and Laredo; and the foods, public celebrations, and political attitudes that characterize the region. Arreola's findings thus offer a new appreciation for the great cultural diversity that exists within the Mexican American borderlands.
Author : Laura R. Barraclough
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289110
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Charros written by Laura R. Barraclough and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the American imagination, no figure is more central to national identity and the nation’s origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Americans and Europeans who settled the U.S. West learned virtually everything they knew about ranching from the indigenous and Mexican horsemen who already inhabited the region. The charro—a skilled, elite, and landowning horseman—was an especially powerful symbol of Mexican masculinity and nationalism. After the 1930s, Mexican Americans in cities across the U.S. West embraced the figure as a way to challenge their segregation, exploitation, and marginalization from core narratives of American identity. In this definitive history, Laura R. Barraclough shows how Mexican Americans have used the charro in the service of civil rights, cultural citizenship, and place-making. Focusing on a range of U.S. cities, Charros traces the evolution of the “original cowboy” through mixed triumphs and hostile backlashes, revealing him to be a crucial agent in the production of U.S., Mexican, and border cultures, as well as a guiding force for Mexican American identity and social movements.
Author : Elaine A. Peña
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477321446
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book ¡Viva George! written by Elaine A. Peña and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace. ¡Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Peña shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Peña finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.
Author : Helen Simons
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292777095
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Hispanic Texas written by Helen Simons and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Craig H. Roell
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0876112661
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Matamoros and the Texas Revolution written by Craig H. Roell and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional story of the Texas Revolution remembers the Alamo and Goliad but has forgotten Matamoros, the strategic Mexican port city on the turbulent lower Rio Grande. In this provocative book, Craig Roell restores the centrality of Matamoros by showing the genuine economic, geographic, social, and military value of the city to Mexican and Texas history. Given that Matamoros served the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Texas, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas, Chihuahua, and Durango, the city’s strategic location and considerable trade revenues were crucial. Roell provides a refreshing reinterpretation of the revolutionary conflict in Texas from a Mexican point of view, essentially turning the traditional story on its head. Readers will learn how Matamoros figured in the Mexican government's grand designs not only for national prosperity, but also to preserve Texas from threatened American encroachment. Ironically, Matamoros became closely linked to the United States through trade, and foreign intriguers who sought to detach Texas from Mexico found a home in the city. Roell’s account culminates in the controversial Texan Matamoros expedition, which was composed mostly of American volunteers and paralyzed the Texas provisional government, divided military leaders, and helped lead to the tragic defeats at the Alamo, San Patricio, Agua Dulce Creek, Refugio, and Coleto (Goliad). Indeed, Sam Houston denounced the expedition as “the author of all our misfortunes.” In stark contrast, the brilliant and triumphant Matamoros campaign of Mexican General José de Urrea united his countrymen, defeated these revolutionaries, and occupied the coastal plain from Matamoros to Brazoria. Urrea's victory ensured that Matamoros would remain a part of Mexico, but Matamorenses also fought to preserve their own freedom from the centralizing policies of Mexican President Santa Anna, showing the streak of independence that characterizes Mexico's northern borderlands to this day.
Author : Nancy Capace
Publisher : North American Book Dist LLC
ISBN 13 : 0403095999
Total Pages : 1101 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Texas written by Nancy Capace and published by North American Book Dist LLC. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 1101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Gramon
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146169910X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Fun Texas Festivals and Events written by Jim Gramon and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2001-10-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texans will use any excuse to have fun! Pull up a chair and let a legendary Texas storyteller take you on a yearlong tour to 1,600 of his favorite fun Texas events in over 600 towns.
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Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 : 1623760429
Total Pages : 835 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Texas, a Guide to the Lone Star State written by Best Books on and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1940 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Chambers
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
ISBN 13 : 0780816587
Total Pages : 4510 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Holidays Around the World, 6th Ed. written by James Chambers and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 4510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference guide that covers over 3,500 observances. Features both secular and religious events from many different cultures, countries, and ethnic groups. Includes contact information for events; multiple appendices with background information on world holidays; extensive bibliography; multiple indexes.
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Author : Insight Guides
Publisher : Apa Publications (UK) Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780058772
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Insight Guides Texas written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Guides: Inspiring your next adventure This new edition of Insight Guide Texas is a comprehensive, full-colour travel guide packed with inspiration and information. It is packed with engrossing features on everything from Texan cowboys and Spanish missions to the Houston's Space Center. A detailed history section covers its American Indian and Spanish heritage and the fight for independence and explains how it evolved into one of the most influential US states. A revamped Best of Texas section lists the state's must-see attractions, from national parks to historic sites and art galleries to festivals. With a new chapter on Austin, the Places section covers the state's principal cities and the deserts, mountains and coastal areas between. Specially commissioned photographs vividly capture Texas' arid, but beautiful landscape, the dynamic architecture of its cities, and its surprisingly diverse population. Detailed full-colour maps help you get around, while the travel tips section is packed with useful information on transport, climate, festivals and outdoor activities, and provides answers to such questions as when to go, where to stay and what to budget for your trip. About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-color print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travelers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure. 'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine
Author : José María Obregón
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404231092
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Texas written by José María Obregón and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the places and people of Texas.
