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  • Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature
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  • By John Morán González
  • 2009
  • Published by: University of Texas Press
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A watershed revision in the history of Mexican American literature and culture, revealing the crucial role played by the Texas Centennial of 1936 in crystallizing a new, politicized ethnic identity.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Preface and Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-xiv
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  1. Introduction: Renaissance in the Borderlands
  2. pp. 1-28
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  1. CHAPTER 1. “Texanizing Texans”: Texas Centennial Discourses of Racial Pedagogy
  2. pp. 29-66
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  1. CHAPTER 2. “This Is Our Grand Lone Star State”: Reclaiming Texas History in María Elena Zamora O’Shea’s El Mesquite
  2. pp. 67-94
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  1. CHAPTER 3. Forging Bicultural U.S. Citizenship: LULAC and the Making of Mexican American Aesthetics
  2. pp. 95-126
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  1. CHAPTER 4. A Mexico-Texan Interlude: Américo Paredes, Border Modernity, and the Demise of Patriarchal Anticolonialism
  2. pp. 127-156
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  1. CHAPTER 5. Mujeres Fronterizas: Writing Tejana Agency into the Texas Centennial Era
  2. pp. 157-192
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  1. Epilogue: From Centennial to Sesquicentennial
  2. pp. 193-202
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 203-229
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  1. Works Cited
  2. pp. 231-242
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 243-259
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