Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados

Class and Culture on the South Texas Border

Chad Richardson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

314 Seiten

1999
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
9780292770904 (ISBN)

Infos

"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 fascinating 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.

Autor

Chad Richardson is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His previous books include On the Edge of the Law: Culture, Labor, and Deviance on the South Texas Border, coauthored with Rosalva Resendiz.

Inhalt

* List of Figures * List of Tables * Borderlife Interview Projects * Preface * Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1. "Mama, Nosotros Somos Migrantes": South Texas Farmworkers, 1950-1990 (with Cruz C. Torres and Juanita Valdez Cox) * Chapter 2. "A Nice House": The Colonias of South Texas * Chapter 3. "Only a Maid": Undocumented Domestic Workers in South Texas (with Cruz C. Torres) * Chapter 4. Social Class on the South Texas-Mexico Border * Chapter 5. The Pain of Gain: Fifty Years of Anglo-Hispanic Relations in South Texas Schools (with Maria Olivia Villarreal Solano) * Chapter 6. From Mexicanos to Mexican Americans * Chapter 7. "!Ahi Viene el Bolillo!": Anglo Newcomers to South Texas * Chapter 8. Black, Brown, and White: Race and Ethnicity in South Texas * Appendix A: Student Interviewers * Appendix B: Borderlife Interview Surveys * Notes * Bibliography * Index

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 16 photos, 10 line drawings, 35 figures, 1 map
• Verlagsort: Austin, TX
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 794 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-13: 9780292770904 / 9780292770904
• Zustand: Neuware