Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction Renaissance in the Borderlands 1
5. CHAPTER 1 “Texanizing Texans”: Texas Centennial Discourses of Racial Pedagogy 29
6. CHAPTER 2 “This Is Our Grand Lone Star State”: Reclaiming Texas History in María Elena Zamora O’Shea’s El Mesquite 67
7. CHAPTER 3 Forging Bicultural U.S. Citizenship: LULAC and the Making of Mexican American Aesthetics 95
8. CHAPTER 4 A Mexico-Texan Interlude: Américo Paredes, Border Modernity, and the Demise of Patriarchal Anticolonialism 127
9. CHAPTER 5 Mujeres Fronterizas: Writing Tejana Agency into the Texas Centennial Era 157
10. Epilogue: From Centennial to Sesquicentennial 193
11. Notes 203
12. Works Cited 231
13. Index 243