Batos, bolillos, pochos, & pelados : class & culture on the South Texas border /
Profiles the uniqueness and diversity of the area just past the South Texas border and explains how the Mexican immigrants who have settled in this area have helped create the area's unusual culture
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
1999
Austin : 1999 |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| Summary: | Profiles the uniqueness and diversity of the area just past the South Texas border and explains how the Mexican immigrants who have settled in this area have helped create the area's unusual culture "The Valley of South Texas," a recent joke goes, "is a great place to live. It's so close to the United States." Culturally, this borderland region is both Mexican and Anglo-American, and its people span the full spectrum, from a minority who wish to remain insulated within strictly Anglo or Mexican communities and traditions to a majority who daily negotiate both worlds This book offers the fullest portrait currently available of the people of the South Texas borderlands. An outgrowth of the Borderlife Research Project conducted at the University of Texas-Pan American, it uses the voices of several hundred Valley residents, backed by the findings of sociological surveys, to describe the lives of migrant farm workers, colonia residents, undocumented domestic servants, maquila workers, and Mexican street children. Likewise, it explores race and ethnic relations among Mexican Americans, permanent Anglo residents, "Winter Texans," Blacks, and Mexican immigrants. From this firsthand material, the book vividly reveals how social class, race, and ethnicity have interacted to form a unique border culture |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xxii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xxii, 292 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm xxii, 292 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm xxii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-283) and index Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-283) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-283) and index Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0292770901 (pbk.) 0292770901 029277091X (cloth) 029277091X 9780292770904 (pbk.) 9780292770904 9780292770911 (cloth) 9780292770911 |