Suggested Reading List
This reading list is a living document that will be added to over time. It is the countless work scholars and professors that have shared their knowledge and resources with the community. Provided are two versions of the relevant reading list; one is a quick reference by topic, and the other is a comprehensive reading list also organized by topic. While this is not a complete list of books available for these topics, it is a list that has influenced countless students and community members and has been included in reading lists of similar subjects.
Quick Reference Reading List
Fiesta San Antonio/Patrias/Parades
Hernández-Ehrisman, Laura. Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016.
Peña, Elaine A. Viva George!: Celebrating Washington’s Birthday at the US-Mexico Border. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022.
Cantú, Norma E., and Kristina Downs. Fiestas in Laredo: Matachines, Quinceañeras, and George Washington’s Birthday. Stephenville, Texas. Texas Folklore Society, 2024.
Stone, Amy L. Cornyation: San Antonio’s Outrageous Fiesta Tradition. San Antonio, Texas. Maverick Books, 2017.
Maguire, Jack. A Century of Fiesta in San Antonio. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1990.Fernández, Sylvia, Mendoza,
Haynes, Michaele Thurgood. Dressing Up Debutantes: Pageantry and Glitz in Texas. Berg Publishers. Oxford, United Kingdom. 1998.
Sylvia, Saldaña, Liliana, et. al. Concientizando Comunidades, Voices of Resistance: Decolonizing Fiesta through Community Praxis (Official and Alternative) 2023
Cordova, Ruben C. “Is It Time for San Antonio’s Fiesta to Secede from San Jacinto? A Modest Proposal.” Glasstire, 2021 and Part 2 “Is It Time for San Antonio’s Fiesta to Secede from San Jacinto? A Modest Proposal.” Glasstire, 2024
April Issue La Voz de Esperanza 2025
Other Materials Online:
The Weird History Behind Fiesta Medals | TPR
Debunking Alamo Myths | Glasstire.
‘I’d rather not know’: Why We Choose Ignorance-American Psychological Association
Republic of Texas Draft Constitution | Bullock Texas State History Museum
Fiesta: Why Some San Antonians Are Conflicted About Citywide Celebration | TPR
The Dark Origins of Fiesta-Spectrum News
Some San Antonians Actually hate Fiesta, and Here’s Why-The Express News
NEISD distances itself from controversial ‘Mad Rebel' Fiesta Medal-KSAT
The History of Why San Antonio Parties Hard for Fiesta-My San Antonio
Majestic memories: Antique photos show Fiesta queens - Axios San Antonio
Slavery in Texas
Barba, Paul. Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands. Lincoln: Nebraska, 2021.
Campbell, Randolph B. An Empire for Slavery : The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Torget, Andrew J. Seeds of Empire : Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Kosub, D. Lost Texas Roads, Bexar County Slave Patrols. 2019.
Lost Texas Roads-Bexar County Slave Patrols.
Slavery in The Americas
Downs, Gregory P. After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
Glymph, Thavolia. The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Guyatt, Nicholas. Bind Us Apart : How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Berry, Daina Ramey. The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Boston: Beacon Press, 2017.
Beckles, Hilary. Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
Morgan, Jennifer. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Texas Rangers and Anti-Mexican Violence
Swanson, Doug J. Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers., Kaleo Griffith, et al. Viking Press, 2020.
Carrigan, William D. and Clive Webb. Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928. Cary: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Muñoz Martínez, Monica. The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Villanueva Jr., Nicholas. The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017.
Levario, Miguel Antonio. Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2012.
Herrera, Jack. “White Hats Podcast ” Texas Monthly, December 13, 2022. White Hats, Episode 6: Memorials and Monuments – Texas Monthly
The History - Refusing to Forget Project Website
Mexican American Studies
Montejano, David. Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987.
Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987.
Acuña, Rodolfo. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos. 5th ed., Pearson Longman, 2004.
Garcia, Alma M. Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings The Basic Historical Writings. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2014.
Orozco, Cynthia E. No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
Paredes, Américo. “With His Pistol in His Hand:” A Border Ballad and Its Hero. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958.
Paredes, Américo. George Washington Gómez a Mexicotexan Novel. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1990.
Ruíz, Vicki. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Castaneda, Antonia I., Heidenreich, Linda. Three Decades of Engendering History: Selected Works of Antonia I. Castaneda (Volume 9) (Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series) December 5, 2014.
Barragán Goetz, Phillis M. Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas. First edition. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2020.
Johnson, Benjamin Heber. Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Foley, Neil. Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010
White Supremacy
Madley, Benjamin. American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
Stratton, Clif. Education for Empire American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016.
Allen, Theodore W. The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo America. Verso, 1997.
Bills, E.R. Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror. Fort Worth: Eakin Press, 2015.
Bills, E. R. (2014). The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas. Charleston, SC: The History Press.
Diangelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Boston: Beacon Press, 2018.
Feagin, Joe R. & Karyn D. McKinney. The Many Faces of Racism. New York: Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, Inc., 2003
Isaac, Benjamin. The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity. Oxford; Princeton University, 2004.
The Alamo/ and other Myths
Bonekemper, E. H. The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won. Regnery History, 2015.
Burrough, Bryan, Tomlinson, Chris and Jason Stanford. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth. New York: Penguin Press, 2021.
Tucker, Phillip. Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth. Philadelphia: Casemate
Publishers, 2010.
Downs, Gregory P. After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Jackson, Ron J. and Lee Spenser White. Joe the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015.
Tucker, Phillip Thomas, PhD. Silenced Revelation About an Icon: Suicide of the Alamo’s Commander, William Barret Travis. Portland: PublishNation, 2020.
Tucker, Phillip. Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth. Philadelphia: Casemate
Publishers, 2010.
Tucker, Phillip. America’s Forgotten First War for Slavery and Genesis of the Alamo. Portland: Publish Nation, Volumes I and II, 2017.
Tucker, Phillip. Emily D. West and the“Yellow Rose of Texas” Myth. Jefferson: McFarland & Company,
2014
San Antonio History
Miller, Char, and Julián Castro. West Side Rising : How San Antonio’s 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement. San Antonio: Maverick Books, 2021.
González, Gabriela. Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Hernández, Kelly Lytle. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 2022.
Hernández, Sonia. Working Women into the Borderlands. College Station: Texas A&M University, 2014.
Pérez, Lourdes. Still Here: Homenaje al Westside de San Antonio. San Antonio, Texas. Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, 2018.
DeTurk, Sara. Activism, Alliance Building, and the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2015.
Ramos, Raúl A. Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Rosales, Rodolfo. The Illusion of Inclusion: The Untold Political Story of San Antonio. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021.
Flores, Richard R. Los Pastores: History and Performance in the Mexican Shepherd’s Play of South Texas. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Texas
Johnson, Benjamin Heber. Texas: An American History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.
Foley, Neil. The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. United States: University of California Press, 1998.
Tomlinson, Chris., Stanford, Jason., Burrough, Bryan. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth. United States: Penguin Publishing Group, 2022.
Wuthnow, Robert. Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful Bible-Belt State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Behnken, Brian D. Fighting their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Expanded Reading List By Topic
Slavery
Barba, Paul. Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands. Lincoln: Nebraska, 2021.
Campbell, Randolph B. An Empire for Slavery : The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Torget, Andrew J. Seeds of Empire : Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Baumgartner, Alice L. South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 2020.
Downs, Gregory P. After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
Glymph, Thavolia. The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Guyatt, Nicholas. Bind Us Apart : How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
McLure, Helen. “’Who dares to Style This Female a Woman?’”: Lynching, Gender, and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. West,” in Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South. Edited by Michael J. Pfeifer. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2013.
Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow : Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Miles, Tiya. Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Nelson, Megan Kate. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West. New York: Scribner, 2020.
Reséndez, Andrés. The Other Slavery : The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Berry, Daina Ramey. The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Boston: Beacon Press, 2017.
Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name. New York: Double Day Publishing, 2008
Bynum, V. E. The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Davis, David. B. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2006.
Dubois, W. E. B. Suppression of the African Slave Trade. New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1896.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Pref. by Jean-Paul Sartre. New York: Grove Press, 1968.
Foner, Philip S. Reflections from the Writings of Frederick Douglass. New York: International Publishers, 1945, 1964, 1971.
Gates, H. L. Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1993.
Horne, G. The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America. New York: New York University Press, 2014.
Mellafe, Rolando. Negro Slavery in Latin America…. Translated by J.W.S. Judge. California: University
of California Press, 1975.
Pollard, E. A. (1866). The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates: Comprising a Full and Authentic Account of the Rise and Progress of the Late Southern Confederacy—the Campaigns, Battles, Incidents, and Adventures of the Most Gigantic Struggle of the World’s History. New York: E.B. Treat.
Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family From Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic Books, 1985.
Prather, Patricia Smith & Jane Clements Monday. From Slave to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1993.
Resendez, Andres. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. Boston: Mariner Books, 2016.
Reynolds, D. E. Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
Sacher, J. M. "Twenty-Negro," or Overseer Law: A Reconsideration." The Journal of the Civil War Era, vol. 7, no. 2, 2017, pp. 269-292.
Wilson, C. R. Baptized in Blood: the Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983.
Merk, F., & Merk, L. B. Slavery and the Annexation of Texas. New York: Knopf Publishing, 1972.
Indigenous Experience
Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. United States: University Press of Kansas, 1995.
Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.
Brooks, James F. Confounding the Color Line : The Indian-Black Experience in North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
Crandall, Maurice. These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates
in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Demos, John. The Heathen School : A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic. First edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Graybill, Andrew R. The Red and the White : A Family Saga of the American West. First edition. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation. W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Hämäläinen, Pekka. Indigenous Continent : The Epic Contest for North America. First edition. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation. W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Hämäläinen, Pekka. The Comanche Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Himmel, Kelly Frank. “Anglo-Texans, Karankawas, and Tonkawas, 1821-1859: A Sociological Analysis of Conquest”. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1995.
Madley, Benjamin. American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
Treuer, David. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present. New York: Riverhead, 2019.
West, Elliott. The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Himmel, Kelly Frank. “Anglo-Texans, Karankawas, and Tonkawas, 1821-1859: A Sociological Analysis of Conquest”. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1995.
Markowitz, Harvey. “Trail of Tears, “American Indians. California: Salem Press: 1995.
Anti-Mexican Violence Texas/The Texas Rangers
Carrigan, William D. and Clive Webb. Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928. Cary: Oxford University Press, 2013
Harris, Charles H, and Louis R Sadler. The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue. Lincoln: UNP - Nebraska Paperback, 2013.
Hernández, Sonia, and John Morán González. Reverberations of Racial Violence Critical Reflections on the History of the Border. Edited by Sonia Hernández and John Morán González. s.l: University of Texas Press, 2021.
Graybill, Andrew R. Policing the Great Plains : Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Muñoz Martínez, Monica. The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018
Utley, Robert M. Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers. Cary: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2002.
Webb, Walter Prescott. Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1935.
Warnock, Kirby F., Roland A. Warnock, Don. Henley, and Ramirez family. Border Bandits True Texas Story, Retold. Dallas, Texas: Trans-Pecos Productions. 2004.
Herrera, Jack. “White Hats Podcast ” Texas Monthly, December 13, 2022. https://www.texasmonthly.com/podcast/white-hats-episode-6-memorials-and-monuments/
Villanueva Jr., Nicholas. The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017.
Hernández, Sonia. For a Just and Better World : Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021.
Buch, Jason. “Criminal Cases in South Texas Are Unraveling Because of a Texas Ranger's Suspension after the Uvalde Shooting.” The Texas Tribune. The Texas Tribune, December 22, 2022. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/22/texas-ranger-uvalde-shooting-criminal-cases-kindell/.
Swanson, Doug J. Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers., Kaleo Griffith, et al. Viking Press, 2020.
Webb, Walter Prescott. Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1935.
Collins, Michael L. Texas Devils: Rangers & Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846 – 1861. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.
De León, Arnoldo. War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities. Houston: University of Houston – Center for Mexican American Studies, 2012.
Johnson, Benjamin Heber. Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Levario, Miguel Antonio. Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2012.
Graham, Don. “Fallen Heroes.” Texas Monthly, February 1, 2005. https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/fallen-heroes/.
Porvenir Massacare-https://www.porvenirmassacre.org/.
Refusing to Forget Project- https://refusingtoforget.org/the-history/.
The Canales Trial Transcript. Archive, Texas Digital. “Joint Committees.” Texas Digital Archive. https://tsl.access.preservica.com/tda/texas-state-government/legislature/joint-committees/#ranger
Anti-Mexican Violence
Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.
Hernández, Bernadine Marie. Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Carrigan, William D. and Clive Webb. Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928. Cary: Oxford University Press, 2013.
De León, Arnoldo. War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities. Houston: University of Houston – Center for Mexican American Studies, 2012.
Mitchell, Pablo. Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Paredes, Américo. “With His Pistol in His Hand:” A Border Ballad and Its Hero. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958.
Goodman, Adam. The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
U.S. American Borderlands
Aguilar, Gabriel, Harriett Romo, John Phillip Santos, Miguel Díaz-Barriga, William A. Dupont, Jesús F. De la Teja, Enrique X de Anda Alanis, et al. Bridging Cultures Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands. Edited by Harriett Romo and William A. Dupont. s.l: Texas A&M University Press, 2021.
Hogue, Michel. Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Graybill, Andrew R. Policing the Great Plains : Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Levario, Miguel Antonio. Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2012.
Johnson, Benjamin H., Graybill, Andrew R. Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
State Power/Immigration/Nationalism
Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. United States: University Press of Kansas, 1995.
Goodman, Adam. The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
Hernández, Kelly Lytle. Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010.
Kang, S. Deborah. INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the U.S.-Mexico Border. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Molina, Natalia. How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
Lew-Williams, Beth. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Stratton, Clif. Education for Empire American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016.
Allen, Howard W. and Jerome M. Clubb. Race, Class, and the Death Penalty, Capital Punishment in American History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008.
Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton University Press, 2014.
Cohen, Deborah. Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Weber, John. From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Minan, Ana Raquel. Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration. S.l.: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Loza, Mireya. Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom. University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. La Vergne: The New Press, 2020.
Von Eschen, Penny. Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Lytle Hernández, Kelly. City of Inmates Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771’äì1965. s.l.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
The American West
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: Norton, 1991.
Demuth, Bathsheba. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. New York: Norton, 2019.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest : The Unbroken Past of the American West. 1st ed. New York: Norton, 1987.
Minan, Ana Raquel. Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration. S.l.: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Taylor, Quintard. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African American in the American West, 1528-1990s. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
Weber, David J. The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1982.
Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
West, Elliott. Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023.
Identity Formation/Mexican American Studies/San Antonio History
Sánchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Thompson, Jerry. Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007.
Miller, Char, and Julián Castro. West Side Rising : How San Antonio’s 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement. San Antonio: Maverick Books, 2021.
González Jerry. In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018
González, Gabriela. Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Gomez, Laura E. Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race…. New York
University Press, 2007.
Orozco, Cynthia E. No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement.Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
Oropeza, Lorena. The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement. University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Paz, Octavio. The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, The Philanthropic Orge. New York: Grove Press, 1985.
Paredes, Américo. “With His Pistol in His Hand:” A Border Ballad and Its Hero. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958.
Paredes, Américo. George Washington Gómez a Mexicotexan Novel. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1990.
Ruíz, Vicki. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Hernández, Sonia. Working Women into the Borderlands. College Station: Texas A&M University, 2014.
Sánchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Porter, Amy M. Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750-1846. Texas Teck: Texas Tech University Press, 2015.
González Jerry. In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018
Valerio-Jiménez. River of Hope Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands. S.l.: Duke University Press, 2012.
Sosa, Kathy, Rijoas-Clark, Ellen, Speed, Jennifer. Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives. United States: Trinity University Press, 2020
Montejano, David. Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981. United States: University of Texas Press, 2010.
Peña Delgado, Grace. Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Reséndez, Andrés. Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Foley, Neil. Mexicans in the Making of America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014
Rodríguez, Roberto Cintli, and Verónica Castillo Hernández. Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother : Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas. Texas: The University of Arizona Press, 2014.
Valerio-Jiménez, Omar S. Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024
Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987.
Blackwell, Maylei. ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016.
DeTurk, Sara. Activism, Alliance Building, and the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2015.
Pérez, Lourdes. Still Here: Homenaje al Westside de San Antonio. San Antonio, Texas. Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, 2018.
Sosa, Kathy, Rijoas-Clark, Ellen, Speed, Jennifer. Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2020
Theoretical Frameworks
Crenshaw, Kimberle. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement. United States: New Press, 1995.
Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987.
Hooks, Bell. Yearning : Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1990.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. United Kingdom: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990.
Pérez, Emma. The Decolonial Imaginary Writing Chicanas into History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Sandoval, Chela. Methodology of the Oppressed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Baldwin, James. “The American Dream and the American Negro.” New York Times (1923-). New York, N.Y: New York Times Company, 1965.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
Mexico and Slavery and Negro Experience
Aguirre Beltran, Gonzalo…. La Poblacion Negra de México, 1519-1810. Estudio Etnohistorico (Mexico: Ediciones Fuente Cultural) 1946.
Beltran, A. G. (1946). The Black Population of Mexico (La Poblacion Negra de Mexico) 1519–1810. Studios Etnohistorico. Mexico: Ediciones Fuente Cultural.
Bennett, Herman L. Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570 -1640. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.
Beltran, A. G. (1946). The Black Population of Mexico (La Poblacion Negra de Mexico) 1519–1810. Studios Etnohistorico. Mexico: Ediciones Fuente Cultural.
Bobby Vaughn’s The Black Mexico Home Page: Afro Mexicans of the Costa Chica. Website: www.afromexico.com.
Carroll, Patrick J. Blacks in Colonial Veracruz, Race, Ethnicity, and Regional Development…. Austin:University of Texas Press, 1991.
Davidson, David M. Negro Slave Control and Resistance in Colonial Mexico, 1519-1650…. Maroon Societies, Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas. New York: Anchor Books, 1973.
Herrera, C. (2006). The African Presence in México: From Yanga to the Present; Exhibition Itinerary 2006-2007: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, February 11-September 3, 2006; Museo de Historia Mexicana, Monterrey, November 15, 2006-February 25, 2007; National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, March 31- August 12, 2007. Chicago, IL: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum.
Schwartz, Rosalie…. (1975). “Across the Rio To Freedom, U.S. Negroes in Mexico.” Southwestern Studies, No. 44, Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso.
Vincent, Ted…. (1994) “The Blacks Who Freed Mexico.” Journal of Negro History, 79(3): 257-276.
Seijas, Tatiana. Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Clendinnen, Inga. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570. Vol. 61. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Chang, Jason Oliver. Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2017.
Mexican Revolution
Benjamin, Thomas. La Revolution: Mexico’s Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.
Joseph, Gilbert and J. Bucheanu. Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
Katz, Friedrich. The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution. University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Lenti, Joseph U. Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico. University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
Padilla, Tanalís. Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022
Weber, Jonathan M. Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
Turner, John Kenneth. Barbarous Mexico. Chicago: C.H. Kerr & Co, 1911.
White Supremacy
Allen, James, et al. Without Sanctuary, Lynching Photography in America. Santa E: Twin Palms
Publishers, 2007.
Allen, Theodore W. The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo America. Verso, 1997.
Bell, D. (1992). Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books
Bernstein, P. (2008). The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
Bills, E.R. Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror. Fort Worth: Eakin Press, 2015.
Bills, E. R. (2014). The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas. Charleston, SC: The History Press.
Diangelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Boston: Beacon Press, 2018.
Feagin, Joe R. & Karyn D. McKinney. The Many Faces of Racism. New York: Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, Inc., 2003
Harris, C. H., & Sadler, L. R The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
Isaac, Benjamin. The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity. Oxford; Princeton University, 2004.
Katzew, Ilona. “Casta Painting: Identity and Social Stratification in Colonial Mexico.” New York.University. Website: www.gc.maricopa.edu/laberinto/fall1997/casta1997.htm.
Keehn, David C. Knights of the Golden Circle, Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2013.
Krauze, Enrique. Mexico Biography of Power, A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996. New York:
Harper Collins Publishers, 1997.
Loewen, J. W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong. New York: The New Press, 2007.
MacLachlan, Colin M., and Jaime E. Rodriguez O. The Forging of the Cosmic Race, A Reinterpretation
of Colonial Mexico. California: University of California Press, 1980.
McAlister, Lyle N. “Social Structure and Social Change in New Spain,” Hispanic American Historical Review 43, no. 3 (Aug. 1963).
Martinez, M. Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.
Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. New York: Random House, 2020.
Palmer, Colin A. Slaves of the White God Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1976
Said, Edward. W. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Woodson, C. G. The Mis-education of the Negro. United States: CreateSpace Independent Pub., 2017.
Mythmaking
Bonekemper, E. H. The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won. Regnery History, 2015.
Burrough, Bryan, Tomlinson, Chris and Jason Stanford. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth. New York: Penguin Press, 2021.
Carrera, M. M. (2012). Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012.
Cope, R. Douglas. The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico, 1660-1720…. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
San Antonio
Chabot, Frederick C. San Antonio and Its Beginnings, 1691 – 1731. San Antonio: Arts Graphicas Printing Company, 1936.
Cordova, R. C. The Other Side of the Alamo. San Antonio: Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, 2018.
De Leon, Arnoldo. They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes Toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821 – 1900. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.
De La Teja, Jesús F. San Antonio De Bexar: A Community on New Spain’s Northern Frontier. New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
De La Teja, Jesus F. Faces of Bexar: Early San Antonio & Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016.
Flores, Richard R. Remembering the Alamo” Memory, Modernity, & the Master Symbol. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
Groneman, Bill. Alamo Defenders a Genealogy: The People and Their Words. Fort Worth: Eakin Press, 1990.
Groneman, Bill. Eyewitness to the Alamo. Connecticut: Lone Star Books, 2001.
Hamilton, J., & Hunt, L. My Master: The Inside Story of Sam Houston and His Times. Abilene, TX: State House Press, 2008.
Thompson, Jerry. Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007.
Hansen, Todd, Editor. The Alamo Reader: A study in History. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2003.
Holmesly, S. HemisFair 68 and the Transformation of San Antonio. San Antonio: Maverick Publishing Company, 2003.
Huffines, Alan C. Blood of Noble Men, The Alamo, Siege & Battle. Fort Worth: Eakin Press, 1999.
Jackson, Ron J. and Lee Spenser White. Joe the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015.
Kosub, D. (2019). Lost Texas Roads, Bexar County Slave Patrols As accessed on website on June 2, 2021, at http://losttexasroads.com/people/111-patrols-slaves-militia-captains-privates.
Lord, Walter. A Time to Stand: The Epic of the Alamo. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961.
Mason, K. (1994). Paternal Continuity: African Americans and Race Relations in San Antonio, Texas, 1867-1937. PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin.
Nelson, George S. The Alamo an Illustrated History. San Antonio: San Cenveo Printing, 200
San Antonio and Bexar County (300 Years) Edited by Claudia Guerra. San Antonio: Maverick Books, 2019.
Berg-Sobré, J. (2003). San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals. College Station: Texas A & M University Press.
Tinkle, Lon. 13 Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985.
Tucker, Phillip Thomas, PhD. Silenced Revelation About an Icon: Suicide of the Alamo’s Commander, William Barret Travis. Portland: PublishNation, 2020.
Tucker, Phillip. Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth. Philadelphia: Casemate Publishers, 2010.
Tucker, Phillip. America’s Forgotten First War for Slavery and Genesis of the Alamo. Portland: Publish Nation,Volumes I and II, 2017.
Tucker, Phillip. Emily D. West and the “Yellow Rose of Texas” Myth. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2014.
Winders, Richard Bruce. Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution. Abilene: State House Press, 1953 and 2004.
Montejano, David. Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981. United States: University of Texas Press, 2010.
Texas
Horne, Gerald. Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920…. New York University Press, 2005.
Lack Paul D. The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1836 – 1836. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1992
Lundy, B (1836). The War in Texas. Accessed on January 3, 2010. As accessed on June 2, 2021, http://www.sonsofdewittcolony.org//lundy.htm.
Pickering, D., & Falls, J Brush Men & Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.
Schoen, H. (1937). “The Free Negro in the Republic of Texas: The Extent of Discrimination and Its Effects.” Southern Historical Quarterly, vol. 41, no.1.
The Laws of Slavery in Texas (2010) Edited by Randolph B. Campbell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
Schutze, Jim. The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City. United States: Deep Vellum Publishing, 2021.