Noemi Martinez is a Chicana/Bori writer slash poet slash superhero sirena living in deep South Texas.

Reading List

 1800s, 1900s, history, South Texas  No Responses »
Dec 152012
 

This semester’s reading this-woah.

Bibliography

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Alonzo, Armando C. Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

Anderson, Greta. More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Texas Women. Guilford: Globe Pequot, 2002.

Anna, Timothy E. The Mexican Empire of Iturbide. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1979.

Barr, Alwyn. Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995. 2nd. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

Barron, Agnel Natasha. “Representations of Labor in the Slave Narrative.” English Theses. 2009. <http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/62/>.

Berlin, Ira. Slaves without masters; the free Negro in the antebellum South. Pantheon Books, 1974.

Bevir, Mark. “Slavery in the United States.” The SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Theory. Vol. 3. Thousand Oaks, 2010. 1269-1274.

Blackburn, Robin. Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World. Ed. Randy J. Sparks Rosemary Brana-Shute. Univ of South Carolina Press, 2009.

Brenner, Ashley T. “The “Dutch have made slaves of them all, and… they are called Free”: Slavery and Khoisan Indentured Servitude in the Eighteenth-century Dutch Cape Colony.” Emory University, 2009. <http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/1bd7x>.

Broyles-Gonzalez, Yolanda. “Indianizing Catholicism: Chicana/India/Mexicana Indigenous Spiritual Practices In Our Image.” Cantú, Norma Elia and Olga Nájera-Ramírez. Chicana Traditions : Continuity and Change. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Byron, John. “Paul and the Background of Slavery: The Status Quaestionis.” New Testament Scholarship 3.1 (2004): 116.

Camp, Stephanie MH. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Cano, Theresa. AZCentral. Ed. Day of the Dead Art. n.d. 28 August 2012. <http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/articles/dead-history3.html#ixzz2549eMIeM>.

Chang, David A. “Enclosures of Land and Sovereignty: The Allotment of American Indian Lands.” Radical History Review 109 (2011): 108-119.

Daly, Heather Ponchetti. “Fractured Relations at Home: The 1953 Termination Act’s Effect on Tribal Relations throughout Southern California Indian Country.” The American Indian Quarterly (2009).

Gavira, Brunhilde and Horacio Gavira. “Mexico’s Millenniums Of Mathematics.” 1992: 30.

Glasrud, Bruce A. African Americans in South Texas History: Perspectives on South Texas. Vol. 1. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011.

Glasrud, Bruce. The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology. 2007: Texas Tech University Press, n.d.

Gonzalez, Nelly Dinazar. “Examining the Mexican Roots of Contemporary Chicana Feminism: A Socio-Historical and Literary Analysis.” THE McNAIR SCHOLARS JOURNAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 22 (2009).

Gutiérrez, Ramón A and Genaro M Padilla. Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage. Vol. 1. Arte Publico Press, 1993.

Hagan, William T. “How the West Was Lost.” Frederick E. Hoxie, Peter Iverson. Indians in American History: An Introduction. 2nd. Arlington Heights, IL: Wiley-Blackwell, 1998.

Hall, Rebecca. ““Not Killing Me Softly: African American Women, Slave Revolts, and Historical Constructions of Racialized Gender.” The Freedom Center Journal 1.2 (2010).

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Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Second. Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH, 2003.

Kanellos, Nicolás. An Overview of Hispanic Literature with Special Emphasis on the Literature of the Hispanics in the United States. Portland: Portland Public Schools Geocultural Baseline Essay Series, 1997.

La Voz de Aztlan. n.d. 28 August 2012. <http://www.aztlan.net/default6.htm>.

Leiker, James N. Racial Borders: Black Soldiers Along the Rio Grande. Texas A&M University Press, 2002.

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Massey, Douglas S. “Racial Formation in Theory and Practice: The Case of Mexicans in the United States.” Race and Social Problems 1.1 (2009): 12-26.

Massey, Sara R. Black Cowboys of Texas: Volume 86 of Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004.

Mendoza, Louis. “Confronting la Frontera, Identity and Gender:Poetry and Politics in La Crónica and El Demócrata Fronteriza.” Herrera-Sobek, María. Recovering The U.S Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume III. Arte Publico Press, 2000. 103-123.

Mendoza, Louis Gerard. Historia: The Literary Making of Chicana and Chicano History. Vol. 7. TAMU Press, 2001.

Morales, Aurora Levins. The Historian as Curandera. n.d.

Morgan, Jennifer L. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Nava, Alex. “Teresa Urrea: Mexican Mystic, Healer, and Apocalyptic Revolutionary.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 73.No. 2 (2005): 497-519.

Nielsen, George R. Vengeance in a Small Town: The Thorndale Lynching Of 1911. iUniverse, 2011.

Orozco-Mendoza, Elva Fabiola. “Borderlands Theory: Producing Border Epistemologies with Gloria Anzaldua.” Diss. 2008.

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Perramond, Eric P. “The Rise, Fall, and Reconfiguration of the Mexican Ejido.” The Geographical Review July 2008: 356-371.

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Reff, Daniel T. and Courtney Kelly. “Saints, Witches and Go-betweens: The Depiction of Women in Missionary Accounts from the Northern Frontier of New Spain.” Colonial Latin American Review 18.2 (2009): 237-260.

Rodriguez, Albert. “Border Love on the Rio Grande: African American Men and Latinas in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas (1850-1940).” n.d. Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed. September 2012. <http://www.blackpast.org/?q=perspectives/border-love-rio-grande-african-american-men-and-latinas-rio-grande-valley-south-texas-1>.

Ross, Thomas. “The Richmond Narratives.” Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge. Ed. Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. Second. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. 42-51.

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Synder, Christina. “Conquered Enemies, Adopted Kin, and Owned People: The Creek Indians and Their Captives.” Journal of Southern History 2007: 255-288.

“The Continuing Destructive Effects of the Termination Policy on California Indians.” September, 1997.

Truett, Samuel and Elliott Young. Continental Crossroads:Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.

White, Deborah Gray. Ar’n’t I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South. New Work: Norton, 1995.

Work Projects Administration. Slave Narratives: A Folk History in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. The Library of Congress Project. Washington: The Library of Congress, 1941. internet. <http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19446/19446-h/19446-h.htm>.

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There are so many dead that sometimes I can’t remember all their names

 1900s, history, Jovita Idar, South Texas  No Responses »
May 302012
 
Laredo women Leonor V. Magnon and Jovita Idar pose in front of the flag of their organization La Cruz Blanca, which helped wounded soldiers during the Mexican Revolution

Jovita Idar was born in Laredo, Texas in 1885 to Nicasio Clemente and Jovita Vivero and was one of eight children. In 1903 at the age of 18 years she earned a teaching certificate from the Holding Institute in Laredo and taught in a small school but the conditions in which she had to teach Mexican children so frustrated her that she decided to join her two
brothers as a writer for her father’s newspaper “La Cronica.” She believed that by becoming a journalist and an activist she would be more effective in changing the deplorable conditions that existed in the public schools for Mexican children. During this time, Mexican school children were completely segregated and, in many occasions, totally excluded.

Throughout 1910 and 1911 she wrote weekly articles that called for equal educational treatment and exposed the extreme discrimination against Mexican children in the public schools. In addition, Jovita Idar started writing about the atrocities being committed by the Texas Rangers against Mexicans. She wrote about the lynching and hanging of a Mexican child in Thorndale, Texas by the Texas Ranchers and the brutal burning at the stake of 20 year old Antonio Rodriguez in Rocksprings, Texas. Of Antonio Rodriguez, she wrote, “The crowd cheered when the flames engulfed his
contorted body. They did not even turn away at the smell of his burning flesh and I wondered if they even knew his name. There are so many dead that sometimes I can’t remember all their names.”

Laredo women Leonor V. Magnon and Jovita Idar pose in front of the flag of their organization La Cruz Blanca, which helped wounded soldiers during the Mexican Revolution

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