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Invisible Texans : women and minorities in Texas history / edited by Donald Willett, Stephen Curley.
- Title
- Invisible Texans : women and minorities in Texas history / edited by Donald Willett, Stephen Curley.
- Publication
- Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F395.A1 I57 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xix, 236 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This anthology about women and minorities in Texas collects eighteen essays by highly respected scholars, examining the latest multicultural interpretations of the Lone Star state and placing them in a historical perspective. The distinctive and diverse nature of Texas history comes alive through the book?s focus on topics that have been under-represented in Texas history literature.--Amazon.com.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Coastal people of Texas: the Karankawas / Earl H. Elam -- Faint voices: The rhetoric of exploration / John L. Davis -- French Texas: the age of La Salle / Robert S. Weddle -- A brief history of Tejano Rancheros in South Texas, 1730-1900 / Armando Alonzo -- Slavery and the Texas Revolution: a comparison with the American Civil War / Paul Lack -- Trials, tribulations, and good times: Westering women in frontier Texas, 1821-1870 / Paula Mitchell Marks -- Black Texans during the Civil War / Alwyn Barr -- The first African-American public officials in Texas: voter registrars in 1867 / Randolph "Mike" Campbell -- A prairie story: how the Plains Indians lost their empire (and their homes) in Texas / Dan Flores -- Tomás González of Mexico: A forgotten founder of Texas's cotton industry and hero of the Battle of Galveston / Edward Simmen -- A Texan who made a difference: Dorothy Scarborough--teacher; novelist, folklorist / Sylvia Grider -- Women and work during the Great Depression in Texas / Rebecca Sharpless -- When the Afrika Korp came to Texas / Arnold Krammer -- The Hollywood dream for Texas: Linda Darnell / Ronald L. Davis -- Lulu B. White and the Civil Rights Movement in Houston, Texas: 1939-1957 / Merline Pitre -- Dr. Hector P. García: twentieth century Mexican-American leader / Thomas H. Kreneck -- Racial integration of college football in Texas / Richard Pennington -- María Cárdenas: San Angelo Chicano-era activist / Arnoldo De Leon.
- ISBN
- 0072871636 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004049874
- OCLC
- 55095579
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library