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The Mexican Americans in Texas History Conference, organized by the Texas State Historical Association, honored González in 1991. [6] Her works are currently held at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin and also in the Southwestern Writers Collection at the Texas State University-San Marcos. [6]
J. L. Navarro, author of the collection Blue Day on Main Street (1973) [1] Josefina Niggli; Daniel Olivas, author of The Courtship of María Rivera Peña, Crossing the Border: Collected Poems, and How to Date a Flying Mexican; Berta Ornelas, author of Come Down from the Mound (1975) [1] Sheila Ortiz Taylor, author of Spring Forward/Fall Back ...
Joseph Henry Taylor (January 1844 – April 9, 1908) was an American author, soldier, fur trapper, hunter, and printer. Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, he served in the Union Army and lived on the Western frontier. He self-published four books on frontier life and nature and was among the first white settlers of Washburn, North Dakota.
Caballero was written in a decade marked by heated debate about the Mexican-American's place in United States society. [8] The 1930s saw the birth of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and other organizations that promoted the cultural assimilation of peoples of Latin American heritage into mainstream United States culture. [9]
Left-right from top: first female Mexican American author in English María Ruiz de Burton, 1887 picture of the initial boundary marking the U.S.-Mexico border, Texas Rangers during the 1910-1920 La Matanza, 1877 lynching of two Mexican-American men in California, civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, the Mexican Repatriation, the Great American ...
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John Taylor Wood was the son and first child of Robert Crooke Wood from Rhode Island, an army surgeon, and Ann Mackall Taylor, eldest daughter of Zachary Taylor, (who would become a major general in the United States Army, a hero of the Mexican–American War, and who would serve as 12th president of the United States, 1849–1850).
[10] Paredes highlights the significance of Josephina Niggli's 1945 novel, Mexican Village, which was "the first literary work by a Mexican American to reach a general American audience." [10] Many different genres of Mexican American literature, including narrative, poetry, and drama, now have a wide popular and critical presence.