Marco historico, base lingüística y recursos textuales para la investigación del español del suroeste

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-132
Author(s):  
Francisco Marcos-Marín
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Old Spanish ◽  
Mexican American Studies ◽  
Spanish Missions ◽  
Research Collection ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Sobre Todo

En esta primera parte de las dos que constituyen el conjunto dedicado al análisis epistemológico de los estudios pasados y presentes sobre el español en el suroeste de los Estados Unidos de América se cubren tres aspectos. En el primero se presenta el marco geográfico-histórico, seguido de una propuesta de periodización que reformula planteamientos previos del autor. En el análisis de la base lingüística se atiende especialmente a la cuestión del español vestigial, en relación con las propuestas de criollización. En la parte final se presentan y analizan los estudios y proyectos de fuentes documentales. Tras una primera consideración histórica de la bibliografía clásica se presta atención detenida a las encuestas, sobre todo las relacionadas con la realización de atlas lingüísticos. La descripción de los recursos textuales se concentra en tres proyectos: (a) Cibola (Jerry R. Craddock, Barbara De Marco), (b) Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage (Nicolás Kanellos, Carolina Villarroel), y (c) Old Spanish Missions Historical Research Collection — Documentary Series (Center for Mexican American Studies & Research, Our Lady of the Lake University, OLLU, San Antonio, Tejas).

scholarly journals The Struggle for Mexican American Studies in Texas K-12 Public Schools: A Movement for Epistemic Justice through Creation/Resistance

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-35
Author(s):  
Lilliana Patricia Saldaña
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
Mexican American Studies ◽  
Epistemic Justice ◽  
Feminist Scholar ◽  
K 12 ◽  
State Board Of Education

This article traces how Mexican American Studies (MAS) scholar activists led and supported a statewide movement for MAS in Texas. As a Xicana feminist scholar activist, Saldaña draws from her retrospective memory and personal archive of organizational notes, movement documents, personal testimonies before the State Board of Education, and photos, to document her journey within this epistemic justice movement. In doing so, she narrates the processes of creation/resistance that led to change in a state that has historically excluded Black, Brown, and Indigenous histories from school curricula. As a scholar activist involved in various parts of this movement, Saldaña also examines the various interconnected layers of this movement—from local efforts in San Antonio, where she teaches, to statewide organizing—to chronicle the institutional and grassroots processes that led to this historic victory in Texas.

scholarly journals Cinco Dedos: A Mexican American Studies Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-103
Author(s):  
Nicolas García ◽  
Anthony Gonzales
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
American History ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Mexican American Studies ◽  
Mexican American Culture

Mexican American Studies (MAS) courses have been criticized for many years. Legislation in Arizona and Texas have attempted to ban the content. This article pushes back on this attempt of oppression and offers MAS teachers a framework to apply when teaching the content. Using a timeline to depict the years of attempts for Mexican American Studies to be approved, we offer practitioners and researchers an Ethnic Studies framework particularly with MAS courses. Using cultural art, poetry, and literature, MAS teachers can benefit from using the Cinco Dedos framework especially at the secondary (6-12) grade levels. This framework prepares MAS teachers to utilize various Chicanx histories to tell the stories of Mexican American heroes not talked about in traditional American history courses. This article also provides tools to use in secondary MAS classrooms that highlight Mexican American culture for students provided by a MAS teacher. One of the founders of the framework uses this in his MAS course at a high school located in San Antonio, TX. 

The Ambivalent Minority: Mexican Americans and the Voting Rights Act

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Skerry
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Voting Rights Act ◽  
News Magazine ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
Rich History

In the countless conversations about U.S. immigration policy that I have had with Mexican Americans of varied backgrounds and political orientations, seldom have my interlocutors failed to remind me that “We were here first,” or that “This was our land and you stole it from us.” Even a moderate Mexican American politician like former San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros sounds the same theme in a national news magazine:It is no accident that these regions have the names they do—Los Angeles, San Francisco, Colorado, Montana.…It is a rich history that Americans have been led to believe is an immigrant story when, in fact, the people who built this area in the first place were Hispanics.

“The Magna Carta to Liberate Our Cities”

2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-398
Author(s):  
Casey D. Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Chicano Movement ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Model Cities ◽  
Lyndon Johnson ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Starting in 1964, the U.S. federal government under President Lyndon Johnson passed an ambitious reform program that included social security, urban renewal, anti-poverty initiatives, and civil rights legislation. In cities like Los Angeles, these reforms fueled urban revitalization efforts in communities affected by economic decline. These reforms closed the gap between local residents and government officials in California and even subsequently brought the city’s African American and Mexican American population into greater political proximity. Looking closely at the impact of the Chicano Movement on the Model Cities Program, a federal initiative designed specifically for urban development and renewal, this article brings the role of U.S. government policy in shaping social justice priorities in Los Angeles, and the U.S. Southwest more broadly, into sharper view.

scholarly journals Interpersonal Partner Relationships, Bonds to Children, and Informal Social Control among Persistent Male Offenders

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 468-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avelardo Valdez ◽  
Kathryn M Nowotny ◽  
Qian-Wei Zhao ◽  
Alice Cepeda
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Adult Men ◽  
Partner Relationships ◽  
Life Course Framework

AbstractThis qualitative study applied a life course framework to characterize the nature of interpersonal partner relationships of Mexican American young adult men affiliated with street gangs during their adolescence. Data come from a 15-year longitudinal mixed-method cohort study conducted in San Antonio, Texas. We analyzed semi-structured interviews conducted with a subsample (n = 40) during the course of three face-to-face sessions to explore the men’s motivations, aspirations, and goals to lead conventional lives, despite their criminal justice involvement. Specifically, we focus on the complex nature of maintaining ties to children, the navigation of complicated family structures, the processes of seeking partners with economic resources, and on partnerships with criminal and delinquent partners. We document the complex interpersonal nature of these relationships as men contend with serial incarceration and their desires and motivations to desist from criminal behavior.

Art among Us / Arte Entre Nosotros: Mexican American Folk Art of San Antonio

1988 ◽  
Vol 101 (399) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
James S. Griffith ◽  
Pat Jasper ◽  
Kay Turner
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Folk Art

Concrete Biodeterioration in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region

2010 ◽  
Vol 1278 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. E. Rendon ◽  
M. E. Lara ◽  
S. K. Rendon ◽  
M. Rendon ◽  
X. Li
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Arid Region ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
The United States ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Hardened Concrete ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Sewage Systems

AbstractConcrete biodeterioration is defined as the damage that the products of microorganism metabolism, in particular sulfuric acid, do to hardened concrete. In Canada and in the northern part of the United States, sewer failures from concrete biodeterioration are almost unknown. In the southern part of the United States and in Mexico, however, it is a serious and expensive problem in sewage collection systems, which rapidly deteriorate. Also, leaking sewage systems result in the loss of groundwater resources particularly important in this arid region. Almost every city in the Mexican-American border region, who's combined population is more than 15 million people, faces this problem. The U.S. cities have made some provision to face these infrastructure problems, but the Mexican cities have made less effort. We recommend here the Mexican norm (NMX-C-414-ONNCCE-2004) [1] to be reviewed, or at least that a warning be issued as a key measure to avoid concrete biodeterioration.

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