The Bonder and the Dealer

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Keyword(s):  
South Texas ◽  
Drug War ◽  
Drug Economy

A chance meeting with a bail bond agent turned French restaurateur in Falfurrias, Texas, turns the author onto the drug economy in South Texas. After an overview of Mexico’s Drug War, which claimed at least 60,000 lives during the presidency of Felipe Calderon, the author investigates the case of a local drug runner who got caught rolling bags of cocaine into the breakfast tacos he sold out of his taqueria in South Texas. She also expands on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s concept of “the danger of a single story.”

Nepantla

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Gloria Anzaldua ◽  
Death Valley ◽  
Drug War ◽  
The One ◽  
Petrochemical Industries ◽  
The Way

After a decade of nomadism, the author returns home to her native South Texas and discovers her homeland has turned into a death valley in her absence, poisoned by petrochemical industries, ravaged by the drug war, and soon to be barricaded by a steel wall. The concept of “nepantla” is introduced as the way Aztecs described their struggle to reconcile their indigenous ways with the one Spanish colonizers forced upon them in the sixteenth century. More recently, Tejana writer Gloria Anzaldua described nepantla as a metaphor for a “birthing stage where you feel like you’re reconfiguring your identity and don’t know where you are.”

Grasses of South Texas: A Guide to Identification and Value

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-229
Author(s):  
N. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
South Texas

Watershed modeling applications in south Texas

Fact Sheet ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana E. Pedraza ◽  
Darwin J. Ockerman
Keyword(s):  
Watershed Modeling ◽  
South Texas
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