Spanish Texas and Borderlands Historiography in Transition: Implications for United States History

Poyo, Gerald E.; Hinojosa, Gilberto M.

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“…The term "spanish", in reference to the rulers of Texas before Mexico, mirrors the pattern of Mexico in most decades, in spite of Spain's defeat in 1821. Poyo and Hinojosa [62] (p. 395) note that early Texas historians downplayed the Spanish colonial system as "pervasively backward, irrational, inferior" and emphasized the enlightening role of Anglo Americans against "ignorance and despotism". Overall, the analysis of relative frequencies flattens temporal differences.…”

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The Texas Historical Markers Program: Racial and Ethnic Narratives

Choi,

Giordano

2023

Geographies

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In this article we explore the text of the over 16,000 historical markers erected in the state since 1936, using GIS and corpus linguistics to determine the where, how, what, and when of how Texas memorializes its racial and ethnic groups. Unsurprisingly, our results indicate that the story of Texas is implicitly a narrative of white people. More interestingly, the term “African (Americans)” begins to be commemorated especially after the 1990s, but only in stories of community, religion, school, and children, as Texas historical markers do not to dwell on narratives of slavery, the civil rights movement, and lynchings. “Indians” and “Mexicans” in the 1930s and 1960s exemplify the most egregious case of derogatory semantics we found in the markers. As concerns racial and ethnic groups, in general they tend to be memorialized where they were historically present, whether or not such groups are still there. The analysis also reveals the increasing concentration of the markers in urban areas.

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The Texas Historical Markers Program: Racial and Ethnic Narratives

Choi,

Giordano

2023

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“…5 5 To be sure, predominant though his work was, Weber was certainly not the only scholar whose work contributed to shifting conversations about borderlands and border regions in Early America. In 1988, for example, Gerald Poyo and Gilberto Hinojosa (1988) directly addressed the need to weave in Spanish borderlands into United States history in a coauthored article published in the Journal of American History . Some years later, in the early 1990s, Amy Turner Bushnell (1995) prompted scholars to widen the scope of Borderlands Studies even further, placing them not just within their broader continental contexts but within their oceanic ones as well.…”

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Mapping out Early America: Encounters between imperial and indigenous geographies

Reynoso

2020

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Within the last three decades, the geographic dimensions of Early American History have expanded. Transregional, Atlantic, Diasporic, Continental, Hemispheric, and Transoceanic perspectives have helped bring about the conceptualization of a "Vast Early America" connected with but not limited to Britain's North American colonies. This article surveys some of the historiographical trends that have propelled that shift. Recognizing that those changes overlapped with the so-called spatial turn in the discipline of History more broadly, it approaches the topic through a spatial lens. It first considers how histories of cartography in Early America have led to a scholarly rethinking of the field's geographic dimensions. It then examines the ways historians have teased out some of the lived and imagined geographies that Native and European agents negotiated in North America. Because Native geographies were at the center of America's early history as well as the colonial encounters that reshaped it, much of the article's focus is on Native American spatial practices. 1 | INTRODUCTION In February 2015, within a now well-known book review of Bernard Bailyn's Sometimes an Art, historian Gordon S. Wood (2015) declared that the boundaries of Colonial America had become "mushy and indistinct." Although criticizing recent trends in the field of Early American history more broadly, he specifically called out those he traced in the field's leading journal, the William and Mary Quarterly, which Wood argued was in real danger of "losing its way." The Quarterly, he explained, had ceased publishing scholarship exclusively focused on the origins In the last decades of the twentieth century, American historians discovered America.

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2006

A Companion to Colonial America

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Spanish Texas and Borderlands Historiography in Transition: Implications for United States History

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The Texas Historical Markers Program: Racial and Ethnic Narratives

The Texas Historical Markers Program: Racial and Ethnic Narratives

Mapping out Early America: Encounters between imperial and indigenous geographies

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