Publication Series in Mexican American Studies
The University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies is a publishing arrangement with Texas A&M Press whereby the press will print, market and distribute book-length manuscripts solicited by the Center. Four have been published to date through TAMU Press and one has been published internally.
Musica Tejana
Manuel Peña
Texas-Mexican music, or musica tejana, is not one single music but several musical and musico-literary genres, ensembles, and their styles, encompassing the corrido, cancion, and what author Manuel Peña calls the corrido–cancion.
Brown, Not White
Guadalupe San Miguel
Strikes, boycotts, rallies, negotiations and litigation marked the efforts of the Mexican origin community to oppose the discrimination in Houston schools in the early 1970’s. San Miguel identifies the important implications of this struggle for Mexican Americans and for public education.
Ethnicity in the Sunbelt
Arnoldo De Leon
A century after the first wave of Hispanic settlement in Houston, the city has come to be known as the “Hispanic Mecca of Texas.” Arnoldo De Leon’s classic study of Hispanic Houston, now updated to cover recent developments and a decade of additional scholarship, showcases the urban experience for Sunbelt Mexican Americans.
Urban-Speak: Poetry of the City
Ed. Sarah Cortez
“...a new batch of Houston [student] writers explore life in poems that are gritty, throbbing, stubbornly triumphant creations that come from living in the nation’s fourth largest city.” - Collegium: the Magazine of the University of Houston, Spring 2002 The poetry in Urban Speak was composed by students who were enrolled in the “Latino Visions of the City” course.
Mexican American Odyssey
Thomas H. Kreneck
In Mexican American Odyssey, Thomas H. Kreneck not only traces the influential life of Houston entrepreneur and civic leader Felix Tijerina as an individual but illustrates how Tijerina reflected many trends in Mexican American development during the decades he lived, years that were crucial for the Hispanic community today.
