Author: Shirley AchorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Mexican Americans in a Dallas Barrio
Author: Shirley AchorMexican Americans in a Dallas Barrio
Author: Shirley AchorPublisher:
ISBN: 9780816538782
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Barrio America
Author: A. K. Sandoval-StrauszPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541644433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less visible group: Latino and Latina newcomers. Award-winning historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz reveals this history by focusing on two barrios: Chicago's Little Village and Dallas's Oak Cliff. These neighborhoods lost residents and jobs for decades before Latin American immigration turned them around beginning in the 1970s. As Sandoval-Strausz shows, Latinos made cities dynamic, stable, and safe by purchasing homes, opening businesses, and reviving street life. Barrio America uses vivid oral histories and detailed statistics to show how the great Latino migrations transformed America for the better.
Mexican Americans in a Dallas Barrio
Author: Shirley AchorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assimilation (Sociology)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Dallas's Little Mexico
Author: Sol VillasanaPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738579795
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Little Mexico was Dallas's earliest Mexican barrio. "Mexicanos" had lived in Dallas since the mid-19th century. The social displacement created by the Mexican Revolution of 1910, however, caused the emergence of a distinct and vibrant neighborhood on the edge of the city's downtown. This neighborhood consisted of modest homes, small businesses, churches, and schools, and further immigration from Mexico in the 1920s caused its population to boom. By the 1930s, Little Mexico's population had grown to over 15,000 people. The expanding city's construction projects, urban renewal plans, and land speculation by developers gradually began to dismantle Little Mexico. By the end of the 20th century, Little Mexico had all but disappeared, giving way to upscale high-rise residences and hotels, office towers of steel and glass, and the city's newest entertainment district. This book looks at Little Mexico's growth, zenith, demise, and its remarkable renaissance as a neighborhood.
Stories from the Barrio
Author: Carlos Eliseo CuéllarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This work offers a new look at the history of Fort Worth. The history of this people includes the stories of early Mexicanos, escaping the hardships of the Mexican revolution, to the attempts of second generation Mexican-Americans to assimilate to their political voice and freedoms.
The Tejano Diaspora
Author: Marc S. RodriguezPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834645
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos establish
Foreigners in Their Native Land
Author: David J. WeberPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826335104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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.
Nobody's Son
Author: Luis Alberto UrreaPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816522705
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother, Urrea moved to San Diego at age three. In this memoir of his childhood, Urrea describes his experiences growing up in the barrio and his search for cultural identity.
Champion of the Barrio
Author: R. Gaines BatyPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623492661
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Buryl Baty (1924–1954) was a winning athlete, coach, builder of men, and an early pioneer in the fight against bigotry. In 1950, Baty became head football coach at Bowie High School in El Paso and quickly inspired his athletes, all Mexican Americans from the Segundo Barrio, with his winning ways and his personal stand against the era’s extreme, deep-seated bigotry—to which they were subjected. However, just as the team was in a position to win a third district title in 1954, they were jolted by an unthinkable tragedy that turned their world upside down. Later, as mature adults, these players realized that Coach Baty had helped mold them into honorable and successful men, and forty-four years after the coach’s death, they dedicated their high school stadium in his name. In 2013, Baty was inducted posthumously into the El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame. In this poignant memoir, R. Gaines Baty also describes his own journey to get to know his father. Coach Baty’s life story is portrayed from the perspectives of nearly one hundred individuals who knew him, in addition to many documented facts and news reports.