Del Pueblo : a history of Houston's Hispanic community /

Kreneck, Thomas H.

Del Pueblo : a history of Houston's Hispanic community / Thomas H. Kreneck. - Texas A & M University Press ed. - College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2012. - 1 online resource (xv, 160 pages) : illustrations, map - Gulf Coast books ; no. 21 . - Gulf Coast books ; no. 21. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- A peripheral Spanish imprint -- In the shadow of San Jacinto -- Establishing an urban presence, 1880-1910 -- La Colonia Mexicana in Houston, 1910-1929 -- Hard times and war, 1929-1945 -- Latin Americans in postwar Houston, 1946-1958 -- From Latin American to Chicano, 1958-1978 -- "Decade of the Hispanic," 1980s -- Toward the new millennium.

Though relatively small in number until the latter decades of the nineteenth century, Houston'sHispanic population possesses a rich and varied history that has previously not been readily associated in the popular imagination with Houston. However, in 1989, the first edition of Thomas H. Kreneck's Del Pueblo vividly captured the depth and breadth of Houston's Hispanic people, illustrating both the obstacles and the triumphs that characterized this vital community's rise to prominence during the twentieth century. This new, revised edition of Del Pueblo: A History of Hou.

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Américains d'origine latino-américaine--Histoire.--Texas--Houston
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies--Hispanic American Studies.
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Houston (Tex.)--History.
Houston (Tex.)--Pictorial works.
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