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Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province. By Daniel D. Arreola. Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Pp. [xvi], 272. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-292-70511-5; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-292-70510-7.)
In Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province Daniel D. Arreola studies the dynamic subregion where southern culture in the United States ends and southwestern culture begins. Using seventy-five maps and pictures, fifteen tables, and a variety of interdisciplinary methods, Arreola, a cultural geographer at Arizona State University, argues that South Texas is more culturally Mexican than any other region of the nation.
Much of Tejano South Texas defines a region once described in an 1894 Scribner's Magazine article as "The American Congo" (p. 236) and "terra incognita to the rest of the United States" (p. 2). Chapter 2...