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Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Research shows that white parents of multiracial children are often, for the first time, thrust into the realities of racism, are subject to an experience from which they had previously been immune. Where they had once had the privilege of invisibility, white mothers who were raised in homogeneously white families may now face racism from both the white communities who had once embraced them and from “communities of color.”

Tiffany McLain LMFT, “Becoming White: The Experience of Raising Biracial Children,” Psychology Today, February 23, 2018. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-between-worlds/201802/becoming-white-the-experience-raising-biracial-children.

Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History

Posted in Anthropology, Books, History, Media Archive, Monographs, Politics/Public Policy, Religion, Texas, United States, Women on 2013-09-15 20:08Z by Steven

Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History

University of Texas Press
2003
456 pages
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
142 illustrations, 3 tables
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-292-70527

Teresa Palomo Acosta

Ruthe Winegarten (1929-2004)

Awards

2004 T.R. Fehrenbach Award; Texas Historical Commission
Texas Reference Source Award; Reference Round Table, Texas Library Association

This groundbreaking book is at once a general history and a celebration of Tejanas’ contributions to Texas over three centuries

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.

Contents

Foreword by Cynthia E. Orozco
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Native Women, Mestizas, and Colonists
Chapter 2: The Status of Women in the Colonial Period
Chapter 3: From the Republic of Texas to 1900
Chapter 4: Revolution, Racism, and Resistance: 1900-1940
Chapter 5: Life in Rural Texas: 1900-1940
Chapter 6: Life in Urban Texas: 1900-1940
Chapter 7: Education: Learning, Teaching, Leading
Chapter 8: Entering Business and the Professions
Chapter 9: Faith and Community
Chapter 10: Politics, the Chicano Movement, and Tejana Feminism
Chapter 11: Winning and Holding Public Office
Chapter 12: Arts and Culture Epilogue: Grinding Corn Fifty Notable Tejanas
Time Line
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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