Tejano West Texas by ArnoldoDeLeón Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62349-290-8, ISBN: 1-62349-290-4
"Featuring a side of Tejano history too often neglected, author Arnoldo De Leon shows that people of Spanish-Mexican descent were not passive players in or, worse, absent from West Texas history but instead were active agents at the center of it. The collection of essays in"Tejano West Texas" many never before published will correct decades of historiographical oversight by emphasizing the centrality of the Mexican American experience i ..."
"Once neglected, racial minorities are now the focus of intense interest among historians of the American West, who have come to recognize the roles of African American, Chinese, and Mexican people in shaping the frontier. "Racial Frontiers" is both a highly original work, particularly in its emphasis on racial minority women, and a masterful synthesis of the literature in this young field.De Leon depicts a U.S. West populated by settler ..."
Ethnicity in the Sunbelt(1st Edition) Mexican Americans in Houston (Volume 4) (University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies, Sponsored by the Center for Mexican American Studies) by ArnoldoDeLeón Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2001 by Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58544-149-5, ISBN: 1-58544-149-X
"A century after the first wave of Hispanic settlement in Houston, the city has come to be known as the Hispanic mecca of Texas.” Arnoldo De León’s classic study of Hispanic Houston, now updated to cover recent developments and encompass a decade of additional scholarship, showcases the urban experience for Sunbelt Mexican Americans.De León focuses on the development of the barrios in Texas’ largest city from the 1920s to the present. F ..."
"Table of Contents: Foreword, Tatcho Mindiola Introduction, Arnoldo De Leon Beyond Borders: Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Revolution, Paul Hart The Mexican Revolution's Impact on Tejano Communities: The Historiographic Record, Arnoldo De Leon La Rinchada: Revolution, Revenge, and the Rangers, 1910-1920, Richard Ribb The Mexican Revolution, Revolucion de Texas, and Matanza de 1915 , Trinidad Gonzales The El Paso Race Riot of 1916 ..."
They Called Them Greasers Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821–1900 by ArnoldoDeLeón Paperback, 167 Pages, Published 1983 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-78054-5, ISBN: 0-292-78054-0
"Tension between Anglos and Tejanos has existed in the Lone Star State since the earliest settlements. Such antagonism has produced friction between the two peoples, and whites have expressed their hostility toward Mexican Americans unabashedly and at times violently. This seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas. For some, it will be ..."
The Dance of Freedom Texas African Americans during Reconstruction (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture) by Barry A. Crouch, Larry Madaras, ArnoldoDeLeón Paperback, 286 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71487-8, ISBN: 0-292-71487-4
"This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedom meant to the newly emancipated, how white Texans reacted to the freed slaves, and how Freedmen's Bureau agents and African American politicians worked to improve the lot of ordinary African American Texans. The volume also contains Crouch's ..."
Tejano West Texas by ArnoldoDeLeón 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62349-305-9, ISBN: 1-62349-305-6
"8; and Carlos E. Cuéllar, Stories from the Barrio: A History of Mexican Fort Worth (
Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2003). 25. 1980 Census of
Population, Table 16, “Total Persons and Spanish Origin Persons by Type pp. 45
-35 to 45-43, gives the following figures for Mexican of Spanish Origin and Race:
1980,” Americans living in the four major cities of the Edwards Plateau and Trans
-Pecos region: Odessa, 90,027 (total p ..."
"Information by transcribed interview of Mrs. E. M. Sorensen, Sebastian resident,
by [?] Harding,August 23, 1971, RPL. 98. Courant, August 13, 1915, calls Austin “
secretary” of the organization; Sandos, Rebellion in the Borderlands, 89, refers to
him as “president”; and the Delta Irrigation News, March 17, 1926, describes him
simply as “leader,” clipping, RPL. 99. “Lista.” 100. Delta Irrigation News, March 17
, 1926. 101. Information ..."
"In 1991 Walter L. Buenger and the late Robert A. Calvert compiled a pioneering work in Texas historiography: Texas Through Time, a seminal survey and critique of the field of Texas history from its inception through the end of the 1980s. Now, Buenger and Arnoldo De León have assembled an important new collection that assesses the current state of Texas historiography, building on the many changes in understanding and interpretation that ..."
They Called Them Greasers Anglo Attitudes Toward Mexicans in Texas : 1821 - 1900 by ArnoldoDeLeón 167 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-78950-0, ISBN: 0-292-78950-5
"161. 10. Winthrop D. Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, p. 241. 11. John D. Reid, Reid's Tramp: Or, A Journal of the Incidents of Ten Months' Travel . . ., p. 38; Albert D. Richardson, Beyond the Mississippi: From the ..."
"Hispanics in the American West portrays the daily lives, struggles, and triumphs of Spanish-speaking peoples from the arrival of Spanish conquistadors to the present, highlighting such defining moments as the years of Mexican sovereignty, the Mexican-American War, the coming of the railroad, the great Mexican migration in the early 20th century, the Great Depression, World War II, the Chicano Movement that arose in the mid-1960s, and mo ..."
"a history of Mexican Americans in the United States Richard Griswold del Castillo
, Arnoldo De León ... Their Brow, 111-13; Smith, "Social and Political Dynamics of
the Kansas City Colonia," 387, 388; F. Arturo Rosales, "Mexicans, ... Proletarians
of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest,
1917-1933 (Berkeley: University ... Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Process of
Cultural Syncretization i ..."
"In 1910 Francisco Madero, in exile in San Antonio, Texas, launched a revolution that changed the face of Mexico. The conflict also unleashed violence and instigated political actions that kept that nation unsettled for more than a decade. As in other major uprisings around the world, the revolution’s effects were not contained within the borders of the embattled country. Indeed, the Mexican Revolution touched communities on the Texas si ..."
"In 1991 Walter L. Buenger and the late Robert A. Calvert compiled a pioneering work in Texas historiography: "Texas Through Time, " a seminal survey and critique of the field of Texas history from its inception through the end of the 1980s. Now, Buenger and Arnoldo De Leon have assembled an important new collection that assesses the current state of Texas historiography, building on the many changes in understanding and interpretation t ..."
""Leaders of the Mexican American Generation" explores the lives of a wide range of influential members of the US Mexican American community between 1920 and 1965 who paved the way for major changes in their social, political, and economic status within the United States. Including feminist Alice Dickerson Montemayor, to San Antonio attorney Gus Garcia, and labor activist and scholar Ernesto Galarza, the subjects of these biographies in ..."
Foreigners in Their Native Land(Updated) Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans by David J. Weber, ArnoldoDeLeón Paperback, 314 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-3510-4, ISBN: 0-8263-3510-1
"Most writing about Mexican Americans deals only with the twentieth century. This book provides the much-needed historical perspective that is essential for a full understanding of the present. Dozens of selections from firsthand accounts, introduced by David J Weber's essays, capture the essence of the Mexican-American experience in the Southwest from the time the first pioneers came north from Mexico. PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: The ..."