Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados : : Class and Culture on the South Texas Border / / Michael J. Pisani, Chad Richardson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Richardson, Chad,; Pisani, Michael J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Arizmendi, David,; Chamberlain, Jenny,; Cox, Juanita Valdez,; Flota, Chrystell,; King, Daniel P.,; Sargent, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: Revised Edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

A classic account of life on the Texas-Mexico border, Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados offers the fullest portrait currently available of the people of the South Texas/Northern Mexico borderlands. First published in 1999, the book is now extensively revised and updated throughout to cover develo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• PART I RANKING AND CLASS INEQUALITY
• CHAPTER 1 Migrant Farmworkers
• CHAPTER 2 The Colonias of South Texas
• CHAPTER 3 “Only a Maid”: Undocumented Domestic Workers in South Texas
• CHAPTER 4 Social Inequality on the Mexican Side of the Border
• CONCLUSION TO PART I Social Class on the South Texas– Northern Mexico Border
• PART II RACIAL AND ETHNIC INEQUALITY
• CHAPTER 5 The Pain of Gain: South Texas Schools Then and Now
• CHAPTER 6 From Mexicanos to Mexican Americans to Americans?
• CHAPTER 7 “Ahí Viene el Bolillo!”: Anglos in South Texas
• CHAPTER 8 Race and Ethnicity in South Texas
• CONCLUSION TO PART II The Interaction of Race, Class, and Ethnicity
• EPILOGUE The Strength and Resilience of People of the South Texas Border
• APPENDIX A Borderlife Survey Research Projects Utilized in This Volume
• APPENDIX B Students Who Contributed Ethnographic Accounts
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index