Their respective ancestral cultures in England and Spain, argue scholars Milo Kearney and Manuel Medrano, had common roots in medieval Europe, and both their conflicts and the shared understandings that may form the basis for their cooperation trace back to those days."--BOOK JACKET.
Américo Paredes (1915-1999) was a folklorist, scholar, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who is widely acknowledged as one of the founding scholars of Chicano Studies.
Border Junkiesis the first book ever written about the lifestyle of active addiction on the streets of Juárez.
... occupied the little wood planted on Motolinía's orders for the Corpus Christi celebrations in 1536 ; and on his journey to Las Hibueras , Cortés included three falconers in his retinue : Perales , Garcí Caro , and Alvarez Montáñez .
Newly revised and updated, Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States.
... Tejanos and Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821–1836 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994), chap. 1. 20 ... Our Tejano Heroes: Outstanding Mexican-Americans in Texas (Austin, TX: Panda Books, 1989) include that of Gregorio ...
In Borderlands Saints, Desirée A. Martín examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico.
This study examines various cases of return migration from the United States to Mexico throughout the nineteenth century.
beat a man who smiled like sunshine and whose theme song was “Happy Days Are Here Again!” Incidentally, several songs of optimism illustrated the hope that was—and is—always a part of life: “Let a Smile be Your Umbrella on a Rainy, ...
Byrkit , James W. Charles Lummis : Letters from the Southwest , September 20 , 1884 to March 14 , 1885. Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1989 . Camarillo , Albert . Chicanos in a Changing Society : From Mexican Pueblos to American ...
"The book explores how border subjects have been created and disputed in cultural narratives of the Texas-Mexico border, comparing and analyzing Mexican, Mexican American, and Anglo literary representations of the border"--Provided by ...