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Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados : Class and Culture on the South Texas Border / Michael J. Pisani, Chad Richardson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: Revised EditionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781477312704
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.50972/1 23
LOC classification:
  • HN79.T43 R53 2017
  • HN79.T43 R53 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I RANKING AND CLASS INEQUALITY -- CHAPTER 1 Migrant Farmworkers -- CHAPTER 2 The Colonias of South Texas -- CHAPTER 3 “Only a Maid”: Undocumented Domestic Workers in South Texas -- CHAPTER 4 Social Inequality on the Mexican Side of the Border -- CONCLUSION TO PART I Social Class on the South Texas– Northern Mexico Border -- PART II RACIAL AND ETHNIC INEQUALITY -- CHAPTER 5 The Pain of Gain: South Texas Schools Then and Now -- CHAPTER 6 From Mexicanos to Mexican Americans to Americans? -- CHAPTER 7 “Ahí Viene el Bolillo!”: Anglos in South Texas -- CHAPTER 8 Race and Ethnicity in South Texas -- CONCLUSION TO PART II The Interaction of Race, Class, and Ethnicity -- EPILOGUE The Strength and Resilience of People of the South Texas Border -- APPENDIX A Borderlife Survey Research Projects Utilized in This Volume -- APPENDIX B Students Who Contributed Ethnographic Accounts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: A classic account of life on the Texas-Mexico border, Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados offers the fullest portrait currently available of the people of the South Texas/Northern Mexico borderlands. First published in 1999, the book is now extensively revised and updated throughout to cover developments since 2000, including undocumented immigration, the drug wars, race relations, growing social inequality, and the socioeconomic gap between Latinos and the rest of American society—issues of vital and continuing national importance. An outgrowth of the Borderlife Research Project conducted at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados uses the voices of several hundred Valley residents, collected by embedded student researchers and backed by the findings of sociological surveys, to describe the lives of migrant farmworkers, colonia residents, undocumented domestic servants, maquiladora workers, and Mexican street children. Likewise, it explores social, racial, and ethnic relations in South Texas among groups such as Latinos, Mexican immigrants, wealthy Mexican visitors, Anglo residents or tourists, and Asian and African American residents of South Texas. With this firsthand material and an explanatory focus that utilizes and applies social-science theoretical concepts, the book thoroughly addresses the future composition and integration of Latinos into the society and culture of the United States.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I RANKING AND CLASS INEQUALITY -- CHAPTER 1 Migrant Farmworkers -- CHAPTER 2 The Colonias of South Texas -- CHAPTER 3 “Only a Maid”: Undocumented Domestic Workers in South Texas -- CHAPTER 4 Social Inequality on the Mexican Side of the Border -- CONCLUSION TO PART I Social Class on the South Texas– Northern Mexico Border -- PART II RACIAL AND ETHNIC INEQUALITY -- CHAPTER 5 The Pain of Gain: South Texas Schools Then and Now -- CHAPTER 6 From Mexicanos to Mexican Americans to Americans? -- CHAPTER 7 “Ahí Viene el Bolillo!”: Anglos in South Texas -- CHAPTER 8 Race and Ethnicity in South Texas -- CONCLUSION TO PART II The Interaction of Race, Class, and Ethnicity -- EPILOGUE The Strength and Resilience of People of the South Texas Border -- APPENDIX A Borderlife Survey Research Projects Utilized in This Volume -- APPENDIX B Students Who Contributed Ethnographic Accounts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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A classic account of life on the Texas-Mexico border, Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados offers the fullest portrait currently available of the people of the South Texas/Northern Mexico borderlands. First published in 1999, the book is now extensively revised and updated throughout to cover developments since 2000, including undocumented immigration, the drug wars, race relations, growing social inequality, and the socioeconomic gap between Latinos and the rest of American society—issues of vital and continuing national importance. An outgrowth of the Borderlife Research Project conducted at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados uses the voices of several hundred Valley residents, collected by embedded student researchers and backed by the findings of sociological surveys, to describe the lives of migrant farmworkers, colonia residents, undocumented domestic servants, maquiladora workers, and Mexican street children. Likewise, it explores social, racial, and ethnic relations in South Texas among groups such as Latinos, Mexican immigrants, wealthy Mexican visitors, Anglo residents or tourists, and Asian and African American residents of South Texas. With this firsthand material and an explanatory focus that utilizes and applies social-science theoretical concepts, the book thoroughly addresses the future composition and integration of Latinos into the society and culture of the United States.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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