{"product_id":"gente-decente-a-borderlands-response-to-the-rhetoric-of-dominance-paperback","title":"Gente Decente: A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of Dominance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeticia Magda Garza-Falcón\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his books \u003ci\u003eThe Great Plains\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Rangers, \u003c\/i\u003e historian Walter Prescott Webb created an enduring image of fearless, white, Anglo male settlers and lawmen bringing civilization to an American Southwest plagued with \"savage\" Indians and Mexicans. So popular was Webb's vision that it influenced generations of historians and artists in all media and effectively silenced the counter-narratives that Mexican American writers and historians were concurrently producing to claim their standing as \"gente decente,\" people of worth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese counter-narratives form the subject of Leticia M. Garza-Falcón's study. She explores how prominent writers of Mexican descent-such as Jovita González, Américo Paredes, María Cristina Mena, Fermina Guerra, Beatriz de la Garza, and Helena María Viramontes -have used literature to respond to the dominative history of the United States, which offered retrospective justification for expansionist policies in the Southwest and South Texas. Garza-Falcón shows how these counter-narratives capture a body of knowledge and experience excluded from \"official\" histories, whose \"facts\" often emerged more from literary techniques than from objective analysis of historical data.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeticia Magda Garza-Falcón has taught at several universities and now works as an independent scholar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 327\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45308099592294,"sku":"9780292728073","price":68.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/a3lseGRPRnd1RzFEZWlIeHdycklIUT09.webp?v=1774155031","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/gente-decente-a-borderlands-response-to-the-rhetoric-of-dominance-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}