TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arreola,Daniel D.
TI  - Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province 
T2  - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
SN  - 9780292757189
AV  - F395.M5 A77 2002
U1  - 976.4/40046872 21
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Mexican-American Border Region
KW  - Texas, South
KW  - Landscapes
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Mexican Americans
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - History
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; LIST OF FIGURES --; LIST OF TABLES --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Borderland Culture Region --; 2. Land beyond the Nueces --; 3.Territory Shaped --; 4. Homeland Forged --; 5.Texas Mexican Spaces --; 6.Texas Mexican Small Towns --; 7Z.Texas Mexican Cities --; 8.Texas Mexican Social Identities --; 9.Tejano Cultural Province --; Notes --; References --; Figure Sources --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/705104
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292757189
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292757189/original
ER  -