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Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 234
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A salute to women who stand out as a shining example among others in her profession, business or creative talent. They range from the early 20s to past 90 years. Several of them were born in the Valley and have never lived anywhere else. Others have lived all over the world before choosing the area for their permanent home.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 234
Book Description
A salute to women who stand out as a shining example among others in her profession, business or creative talent. They range from the early 20s to past 90 years. Several of them were born in the Valley and have never lived anywhere else. Others have lived all over the world before choosing the area for their permanent home.
Author: Cynthia E. Orozco Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477319891 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 338
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The essayist Adela Sloss-Vento (1901–1998) was a powerhouse of activism in South Texas’s Lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. At last presenting the full story of Sloss-Vento’s achievements, Agent of Change revives a forgotten history of a major female Latina leader. Bringing to light the economic and political transformations that swept through South Texas in the 1920s as ranching declined and agribusiness proliferated, Cynthia E. Orozco situates Sloss-Vento’s early years within the context of the Jim Crow/Juan Crow era. Recounting Sloss-Vento’s rise to prominence as a public intellectual, Orozco highlights a partnership with Alonso S. Perales, the principal founder of the League of United Latin American Citizens. Agent of Change explores such contradictions as Sloss-Vento’s tolerance of LULAC’s gender-segregated chapters, even though the activist was an outspoken critic of male privilege in the home and a decidedly progressive wife and mother. Inspiring and illuminating, this is a complete portrait of a savvy, brazen critic who demanded reform on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
Author: Teresa Palomo Acosta Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292784481 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 497
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Winner, Texas Reference Source Award, Reference Round Table, Texas Library Association, 2003 T.R. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission, 2004 Since the early 1700s, women of Spanish/Mexican origin or descent have played a central, if often unacknowledged, role in Texas history. Tejanas have been community builders, political and religious leaders, founders of organizations, committed trade unionists, innovative educators, astute businesswomen, experienced professionals, and highly original artists. Giving their achievements the recognition they have long deserved, this groundbreaking book is at once a general history and a celebration of Tejanas' contributions to Texas over three centuries. The authors have gathered and distilled a wide range of information to create this important resource. They offer one of the first detailed accounts of Tejanas' lives in the colonial period and from the Republic of Texas up to 1900. Drawing on the fuller documentation that exists for the twentieth century, they also examine many aspects of the modern Tejana experience, including Tejanas' contributions to education, business and the professions, faith and community, politics, and the arts. A large selection of photographs, a historical timeline, and profiles of fifty notable Tejanas complete the volume and assure its usefulness for a broad general audience, as well as for educators and historians.
Author: Kathy Sosa Publisher: Trinity University Press ISBN: 159534926X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 289
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Much ink has been spilled over the men of the Mexican Revolution, but far less has been written about its women. Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark, and Jennifer Speed set out to right this wrong in Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico, which celebrates the women of early Texas and Mexico who refused to walk a traditional path. The anthology embraces an expansive definition of the word revolutionary by looking at female role models from decades ago and subversives who continue to stand up for their visions and ideals. Eighteen portraits introduce readers to these rebels by providing glimpses into their lives and places in history. At the heart of the portraits are the women of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)—women like the soldaderas who shadowed the Mexican armies, tasked with caring for and treating the wounded troops. Filling in the gaps are iconic godmothers like the Virgin of Guadalupe and La Malinche whose stories are seamlessly woven into the collective history of Texas and Mexico. Portraits of artists Frida Kahlo and Nahui Olin and activists Emma Tenayuca and Genoveva Morales take readers from postrevolutionary Mexico into the present. Portraits include a biography, an original pen-and-ink illustration, and a historical or literary piece by a contemporary writer who was inspired by their subject’s legacy. Sandra Cisneros, Laura Esquivel, Elena Poniatowska, Carmen Tafolla, and other contributors bring their experience to bear in their pieces, and historian Jennifer Speed’s introduction contextualizes each woman in her cultural-historical moment. A foreword by civil rights activist Dolores Huerta and an afterword by scholar Norma Elia Cantú bookend this powerful celebration of women who revolutionized their worlds.
Author: Charles F. Lee Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1503598349 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 466
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In this third book of the trilogy, the seven former high school classmates with special powers join Colonels Morris and Stevens in a bold mission to rescue two kidnapped boys. During the daring rescue attempt, Colonel Morriss team will confront drug lord Subcomandante Marcos Zapata, known as El Bestia (the beast), and his men in an action-packed thriller that takes place in Mexico and the United States.
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Author: Cynthia E. Orozco
Author: Teresa Palomo Acosta
Author: Texas. Department of Agriculture
Author: Kathy Sosa
Author: Texas. Dept. of Agriculture
Author: Elizabeth Snapp
Author: Texas Federation of Women's Clubs
Author: Charles F. Lee
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