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A comprehensive overview of the folktales, traditions, rituals, and religious practices of Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans --- Mexican Americans --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Mexican Americans. --- Mexican Americans --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes. --- Religion. --- Social life and customs.

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Mexican Americans --- Mexican Americans --- Mexican Americans --- Racially mixed people --- Racism --- Ethnic identity. --- History. --- Race identity. --- History. --- History. --- Mexico --- United States --- United States --- United States --- Relations --- Ethnic relations. --- Race relations. --- Relations

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"Libraries, Borderlands scholars, and those interested in the broad issues of cultural studies will want to own Mendoza's innovative book, which instead of insisting on the strict separation of the two genres of history and literature, seeks ways to integrate them through the new critical analysis."--Jacket.

Mexican Americans --- American literature --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Mexican Americans in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature --- Mexican Americans in literature --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Chicano literature (English) --- Mexican American literature (English) --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Ethnic identity. --- Historiography. --- Mexican American authors. --- Ethnic identity --- Historiography --- Mexican American authors

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Lydia Mendoza began her legendary musical career as a child in the 1920's, singing for pennies and nickels on the streets of downtown San Antonio. She lived most of her adult life in Houston, Texas, where she was born. The life story of this Chicana icon encompasses a 60-year singing career that began with the dawn of the recording industry in the 1920's and continued well into the 1980's, ceasing only after she suffered a devastating stroke. Her status as a working-class idol continues to this day, making her one of the most prominent and long-standing performers in the history of the recording

Singers --- Tejano music --- Música tejana --- Tex-Mex music --- Texas-Mexican music --- Folk music --- Mexican Americans --- Popular music --- History and criticism. --- Mendoza, Lydia. --- Mendoza, Lidya --- United States --- Biography --- Tejano music - History and criticism. --- Mendoza, Lidia

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"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. Kreneck outlines a pattern of identity and assimilation that has been traced in bold, broader terms by other scholars, who have called Tijerina's contemporaries the "Mexican American Generation.""--Jacket.

Mexican Americans --- Businessmen --- Civil rights workers --- United States Local History --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Civil rights activists --- Race relations reformers --- Social reformers --- Business men --- Businesspeople --- Civil rights --- History --- Tijerina, Felix, --- Tijerina Villarreal, Feliberto, --- League of United Latin American Citizens --- Order of Sons of America --- L.U.L.A.C. --- LULAC --- History. --- Houston (Tex.) --- Houston City (Tex.) --- Ethnic relations. --- E-books