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Author : Walter Allen Hoops
Release : 1990
Genre : Kinship
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Book Synopsis "La Gente Decente" by : Walter Allen Hoops
Download or read book "La Gente Decente" written by Walter Allen Hoops. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leticia Magda Garza-Falcón
Release : 2010-07-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 009/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gente Decente by : Leticia Magda Garza-Falcón
Download or read book Gente Decente written by Leticia Magda Garza-Falcón. This book was released on 2010-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his books The Great Plains, The Great Frontier, and The Texas Rangers, historian Walter Prescott Webb created an enduring image of fearless, white, Anglo male settlers and lawmen bringing civilization to an American Southwest plagued with "savage" Indians and Mexicans. So popular was Webb's vision that it influenced generations of historians and artists in all media and effectively silenced the counter-narratives that Mexican American writers and historians were concurrently producing to claim their standing as "gente decente," people of worth. These counter-narratives form the subject of Leticia M. Garza-Falcón's study. She explores how prominent writers of Mexican descent-such as Jovita González, Américo Paredes, María Cristina Mena, Fermina Guerra, Beatriz de la Garza, and Helena María Viramontes -have used literature to respond to the dominative history of the United States, which offered retrospective justification for expansionist policies in the Southwest and South Texas. Garza-Falcón shows how these counter-narratives capture a body of knowledge and experience excluded from "official" histories, whose "facts" often emerged more from literary techniques than from objective analysis of historical data.
Author : Beatriz de la Garza
Release : 2009-03-16
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 327/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Law for the Lion by : Beatriz de la Garza
Download or read book A Law for the Lion written by Beatriz de la Garza. This book was released on 2009-03-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Esto no es cosa de armas" (this is not a matter for weapons). These were the last words of Don Francisco Gutiérrez before Alonzo W. Allee shot and killed him and his son, Manuel Gutiérrez. What began as a simple dispute over Allee's unauthorized tenancy on a Gutiérrez family ranch near Laredo, Texas, led not only to the slaying of these two prominent Mexican landowners but also to a blatant miscarriage of justice. In this engrossing account of the 1912 crime and the subsequent trial of Allee, Beatriz de la Garza delves into the political, ethnic, and cultural worlds of the Texas-Mexico border to expose the tensions between the Anglo minority and the Mexican majority that propelled the killings and their aftermath. Drawing on original sources, she uncovers how influential Anglos financed a first-class legal team for Allee's defense and also discusses how Anglo-owned newspapers helped shape public opinion in Allee's favor. In telling the story of this long-ago crime and its tragic results, de la Garza sheds new light on the interethnic struggles that defined life on the border a century ago, on the mystique of the Texas Rangers (Allee was said to be a Ranger), and on the legal framework that once institutionalized violence and lawlessness in Texas.
Author : Gudie Lawaetz
Release : 1992-07-30
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 302/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spanish Short Stories by : Gudie Lawaetz
Download or read book Spanish Short Stories written by Gudie Lawaetz. This book was released on 1992-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of short stories contains more diverse and lively writing from the Spanish-speaking world. Again much of it is from Latin America, Carlos Fuentes being Mexican, Norberto Fuentes Cuban, and the other writers having their roots in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia and the Argentine. Only Ana Maria Matute is a native of Spain. This highly entertaining selection of stories, together with a chapter from Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel ‘Conversation in the Cathedral’, explores stylistic contrasts and gives an insight into the cultural and social milieu of the Spanish-speaking world. With notes on unusual Spanish words and phrases, it will be of great value to English students of the language as well as a helpful companion to Spanish-speaking students of English.
Author : Guillermina Seri
Release : 2012-03-22
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 788/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Seguridad by : Guillermina Seri
Download or read book Seguridad written by Guillermina Seri. This book was released on 2012-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the governing roles of the police in Argentina, focusing on Seguridad, which conflates personal safety with state security.
