"This book demonstrates the richness of the interethnic mosaic characterizing the Valley of South Texas. . . . By giving voice to local residents, Professor Richardson has amassed a valuable stock of knowledge concerning life along the Texas-Mexican border that is sorely missing in the extant literature." --Rogelio Saenz, Professor and Head of Sociology, Texas A&M University "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.
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This book demonstrates the richness of the interethnic mosaic characterizing the Valley of South Texas.... By giving voice to local residents, Professor Richardson has amassed a valuable stock of knowledge concerning life along the Texas-Mexican border that is sorely missing in the extant literature. (Rogelio Saenz, Professor and Head of Sociology, Texas A&M University )
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Real Life On the Border of South Texas,
By ISRAEL CUELLAR, Ph.D. (University of Texas - Pan American) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados: Class and Culture on the South Texas Border (Paperback)
Many an anthropologist and sociologist has described SouthTexas borderlife along with all its cultural nuances, customs, and practices. Dr. Chad Richardson is the most recent social scientist to take on this challenging task and none has done it better. This book is filled with stories of cultural conflicts, clashes, and mutual cooperation among the various inhabitants of this historically significant and culturally rich region. The cultural confluences of this region are among the strongest and most potent of any multicultural mecca in the world. The region and its people play out the conflicts of two vastly important and different cultures, embedded in economic, power and class struggles for survival. Among the third world colonias, the numerous 'Winter Texan' gated-communities, and the exponential growth of 'macquiladoras,' can be heard the loud sucking sound of NAFTA accompanied by the cries of 'La LLorna.' The region and its people have never been so well documented. Dr. Richardson's observations are based on empirical studies and surveys, richly supported by ethnographic histories collected from archives and interviews with hundreds of families over several generations of Mexican, Mexican American and European Americans who have lived, worked, and invested together to make this region a powerful force for the future of America. This book tells the 'true' story of South Texas. Dr. Richarson doesn't hide anything. He tells it like it was, and how it continues to be, for an important, fast growing, often overlooked, underestimated, and often wrongly stereotyped, minority population. His science represents years of work. His product is most impressive, despite an unfortunate title.
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Just like it is...,
This review is from: Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados: Class and Culture on the South Texas Border (Paperback)
This is a great book that tells it like it is. It describes the lives of many of us in South Texas.
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