War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities(University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies, Sponsored by the Cente)

Table of Contents: Foreword, Tatcho Mindiola Introduction, Arnoldo De León Beyond Borders: Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Revolution, Paul Hart The Mexican Revolution’s Impact on Tejano Communities: The Historiographic Record, Arnoldo De León La Rinchada: Revolution, Revenge, and the Rangers, 1910–1920, Richard Ribb The Mexican Revolution, Revolución de Texas, and Matanza de 1915 , Trinidad Gonzales The El Paso Race Riot of 1916, Miguel A. Levario The Mexican Revolution and the Women of El México de Afuera, the Pan American Round Table, and the Cruz Azul Mexicana , Juanita Luna Lawhn Women’s Labor and Activism in the Greater Mexican Borderlands, 1910–1930, Sonia Hernández Salt of the Earth: The Immigrant Experience of Gerónimo Treviño, Roberto R. Treviño Sleuthing Immigrant Origins: Felix Tijerina and His Mexican Revolution Roots, Thomas H. Kreneck “The Population Is Overwhelmingly Mexican; Most of It Is in Sympathy with the Revolution . . . .”: Mexico’s Revolution of 1910 and the Tejano Community in the Big Bend, John Eusebio Klingemann Smuggling in Dangerous Times: Revolution and Communities in the Tejano Borderlands, George T. Díaz Eureka! The Mexican Revolution in African American Context, 1910–1920, Gerald Horne and Margaret Stevens Understanding Greater Revolutionary Mexico: The Case for a Transnational Border History, Raúl A. Ramos Selected Bibliography About the Contributors Index

Review :
"Many Texans are unaware of the tremendous influence the Mexican Revolution had on Texas. From El Paso to Brownsville, from San Antonio to Laredo, in the years from 1910 to 1917 and in the decades that followed, the Lone Star State was decidedly affected. Many of those fleeing across the Rio Grande were not just the poor but many of Mexico's well-educated economic and political elite, many of whom never returned to Mexico, and who came to have a profound and positive influence on communities north of the border, especially Laredo and San Antonio. For the first time, primarily due to the very capable editorial efforts of Arnoldo DeLeón, one of today's best known historical sleuth-hounds, as well as a number of other leading scholars, we have a full and complete treatment of this fascinating subject, including an accurate final accounting of exactly how many Tejanos died at the hands of the Texas Rangers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley." -- Jerry Thompson, Regent's Professor of History of Texas A&M International University-- (06/01/2011)