Río Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands

Rio Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed publication of the Mexican American Studies Center at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The journal publishes scholarly and creative works about Mexican descent communities in both South Texas and nationally. The journal promotes debate, dialogue, awareness, and insight into the U.S.-Mexico border experience. ISSN 1067-0149

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Rio Bravo: A journal of the borderlands Spring 2014 v.23 no.1

Introduction: On the Matter of Civic Morality: Testimonio Introduction / Tiffany Ana López -- Braceros, Mexicans, Americans, and Schools: (Re) imagining Teaching and Learning in Mexican America / Stephanie Alvarez, Samuel García Jr., Francisco Guajardo, José Ángel Guajardo, Miguel Guajardo, and Jocabed Márquez -- Women’s Grassroots Revitalization of South El Paso: La Mujer Obrera’s Challenge to Gentrification and Urban Neglect / Joel Zapata -- Older Mexican Americans’ Perceptions of Mental Distress / John Gonzalez and Irán Barrera -- Over Both Edges: Coyotaje, Militarization and Liminality in Everyday Life on Ranchos along the South Texas-Mexican Border / Lupe Flores -- “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera and the 1960s Era Speech Test and Speech Classes at Pan American College / Deborah Cole and Robert Johnson -- Play Selection in the Department of Speech and Drama at Pan American University in the 1970s and 1980s: Twenty Years of Excluding Latino Plays / Eric Wiley -- Américo Paredes and His Audiences / Lyon Rathbun -- ¡Viva la vida!, Aleluya, and Pláticas con mi madre / Javier Villarreal -- Subverting the Telenovela: Redefining Gender in Cisneros’s “Woman Hollering Creek” and Islas’s The Rain God / Marina Malli -- Five Strands / Marianita Escamilla -- Polite Shakespeare Only: Teaching Chican@ Texts and The Tempest in Texas after the Attempts to Dismantle Mexican American Studies Programs / Britt Haraway -- Juntos Podemos: Devising Theater as Community-Based Pedagogy / Roxanne Schroeder-Arce -- Pedagogical Conocimientos: Self and Other in Interaction / Josephine Méndez-Negrete -- Community-Based Projects and the Performing and Visual Arts: Promoting Cultural Dialogue / Elena de Costa -- Towards Implementing Culturally Relevant Curriculum: How 17 Words Inspired Research / Dagoberto Eli Ramírez -- Whose Latino/a Studies? Teaching Latinidad as a Güero on a Predominantly Anglo, Socially Conservative Campus / Justin D. García.
Rio Bravo: A journal of borderlands 2009 v.1 no.2

AIDS, Diabetes and Lung Cancer Mortality at the Northern Mexican Border - 1979-1997 / Tim A. Clary -- Shock to the System - Latino Political Trust, Pre- and Post- 9-11 / Diana Evans, Joseph Stewart Jr., Robert D. Wrinkle, and James P. Wenzel -- The Regional Institutionalization of the Texas Rio Grande Valley / Baltazar Arispe y Acevedo, Jr. -- La escritura como terapia de rehabilitación para personas con discapacidad psiquiátrica / Alma Silvia Rodriguez -- Espacio Fronterizo: La Tijuana de Santitos y Peregrinos en Aztlán / Sergio M. Martinez -- El tema de la identidad en La muerte me da de Cristina Rivera Garza / Idalia Villanueva Benavidez -- Lo Anterior: Desde la Periferia de las Palabras / Gabriela Riveros -- A Murmuring of Walls: Murs, Murs by Agnes Varda / Sophie Rachmuhl -- The Border Region: A Fluid Network of Connections / Elyette Benjamin-Labarte -- Long Memories, Short Fuses: The Minuteman Projects and the Texas Rangers / Greg Selber -- Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folkhealing - Reviewed by Servando Z. Hinojosa.
Rio Bravo: A journal of borderlands (New Series) Spring 2003 v.1 no.2

Mark Glazer, Bruce W. Coggin, and Michael Green

What Does the Man See? Searching The Crossing for McCarthy's Vision of Mexico / Bruce W. Coggin -- Materialism and the Function of Women in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy / Kelly Gerald -- Cormac McCarthy and the Literature of American "Filibustery" / Brady Harrison -- Cormac McCarthy's Appropriation of Texas Literary Space in "All the Pretty Horses" / Don Graham -- Revisioning Cormac McCarthy's Existentialism / David Holloway -- Borderline Nostalgia and Global Impact / John Beck -- McCarthy, War, and the Physics of Witness / John Wegner -- "Chicano" as Label: Factors Affecting Widespread Acceptance by Insiders and Outsiders / Anne Arundel Thaddeus -- The Educational and Occupational Aspirations and Expectations of Mexican American Children Living in Colonias / Jaime Chahin.
Rio Bravo: A journal of borderlands (New Series) Fall 2003 v.2 no.1

Mark Glazer and Glenn Martinez

Como pez en agua: The Border from a Different Point of View / Daniel Villa -- The Use of Verbal Forms in the Spanish and English Writing Discourse 13 of Spanish Heritage Speakers in the U.S. / Maria Spicer-Escalante -- Special Considerations in the Writing Processes of Mexican- 25 American Students: The Problem of Text Control / Lila Lisa Canizales -- Solo la pobre se comen la /s/ and other Linguistic 39 Myths: Literary Dialect in the Spanish-for-Native-Speakers Curriculum / Maria M. Carreira -- Signs of the Times: Globalization and the linguistic landscape 57 along the US-Mexico Border / Glenn A. Martinez -- Sustantivos de origen ingles en discurso espahol: cual es su gramatica? / Rena Torres Cacoullos and Neddy A. Vigil -- Aculturacion e identidad en el nacimieto de los negros / Jose Esteban Hernandez -- Dialect Perception in the Free Trade Corridor Arizona-Sonora / Jose Alexandra Sousa -- Of Coyotes', Coyotes, and Coyotes / Michelle Salazar.
Rio Bravo: A journal of borderlands (New Series) Winter 2002 v.1 no.1

Mark Glazer, Michael Breem, and Michael Green

Elderly Latino Needs Along the Texas-Mexico Border: A Demographic Challenge for the 21st Century / Cruz C. Torres -- Xala de aqui. Vinculacion cultural de la migracion Mexican a Estados Unidos / Lourdes Consuelo Pacheco Ladron de Guevara -- A Study of Hispanic New Car Buyers: Revisited / Leon F. Dube and Robert J. Hoover -- The Local Labor Market of Monte Alto: A Sociological Perspective / Laura L. Reagan -- Laser Visa Implementation - Its Effect on the Arizona - Sonora Border Region / Victoria M. DeFrancesco -- Ethnicity, Nationality, and Crimininal Case Disposition on the Border / Joe Sorensen, Amy Patterson and Nigel Cohen -- Geografias ficticias en Tierra de Aztlan -- Review: Chicano Empowerment and Bilingual Education: Movimiento Politics in Crystal City, Texas by Armando J. Trujillo / Servando Z. Hinojosa.
Rio Bravo: A journal of borderlands 1997 v.5 and v.6 no.2 and no.1

Mark Glazer and Bruce W. Coggin

Language Variation in a Borderland Environment: A quantitative approach to mood simplification in Spanish of Reynosa, Mexico / Glenn A. Martinez -- El tabu linguistico en Caras viejas y vino nuevo de Alejandro Morales / Javier Villarreal -- Administracion integral del medio ambiente fronterizo: nuevos retos, nuevas actitudes / M. en C. Gustavo Cordova-Bojorquez -- Suburban Growth in a Northeastern Mexican City: The Case of Saltillo, Coahuila / Michael S. Yoder -- The School Cultures in the Lower Rio Bravo Valley / Patrick D. Lynch -- Los espacios urbanos de la memoria oficial: los monumentos civicos de Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas / Mario Armando Vazquez Soriano -- Jose de la Luz Saenz: precursor de la literatura del movimiento chicano / Jesus Resales -- Price Elasticities and Substitution Elasticities among Productive Factors in the Border Mexican Maquiladora Industry / Jorge Ibarra Salazar -- Reviews/Resenas.
Rio Bravo: A journal of borderlands 1996 v.5 no.1

Mark Glazer and Victor Zuniga

Spatial Origins of San Antonio's Mexican-Born Population / Richard C. Jones -- El lastre argumentative de caracter en el discurso fronterizo contra la pena de muerte / Arturo Zarate Ruiz -- The Impact of the 1994 Peso Devaluation on Texas Border Cities / J. Michael Patrick -- Effects of Acculturation on Diabetes Knowledge Among Mexican Americans in South Texas / Paul Villas, Sue G. Mottinger and Mary Rose -- Sociedad Urbana Y Espacio Religioso: Templos No Catolicos en la Zona Metropolitana de Monterrey / Jose Maria Infante and Victor Zuniga -- Review Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States - Ed. David G. Gutierrez / Kelly F. Himmel.
Rio Bravo: A journal of borderlands 1995 v.4 no.1 and no.2

Mark Glazer and Victor Zuniga

Violations of Human and Civil Rights by U.S. Immigration Authorities in a South Texas Border Community / by Robert E. Koulish and John Robert Warren -- The Central American Immigrant Boys in the Los Fresnos Shelter: The Challenge of the American Dream / by Patrick D. Lynch -- Social Control in Twentieth Century Texas: The Influence of Ethnicity on Prison Terms for Murder / by Deon E. Brock, Jonathan R. Sorensen, and James W. Marquart -- The Phantom Operators: Global Networks and Flexible Production in the Maquiladora Industry / by Eduardo Barrera Herrera -- U.S-Mexican Horticultural Trade: Overlooked Issues / by Aditi K. Angirasa and Bob Davis -- Consideraciones en torno a la política agropecuaria en México: Reflexiones del caso de los fondos de solidaridad para la producción / by Camilo Contreras Delgado -- El curso del Río Bravo en Tamaulipas y en su frontera con Texas: una reflexión histórica / by Manuel Ceballos Ramírez -- Título del trabajo: pandillas juveniles, inmigración, y valores tradicionales de autoridad: El caso de una comunidad en el area metropolitana de Monterrey / by Patricio Solís Gutiérrez
Rio Bravo: A journal of research and issues Spring 1994 v.3 no.2

Robert M. Salmon and Victor Zuniga

Introduction: Minutes of Rio Bravo Association Meeting -- The Reciprical Trade Agreements Act of 1934--and the Development of Economic Policy Toward Mexico / by Raquel Aviña Hunter -- Reacciones nacionalistas a la penetración cultural estadounidense en Quebec y México / by Lawrence Douglas Taylor Hansen -- Boca de Potrerillos and the Prehistory of Northeastern Mexico / by Wm. Breen Murray -- La política comercial y antidrogas en Laredo, Texas / by José María Ramos -- Una estimación del crecimiento de la población de origen Mexicano que reside en los Estados Unidos, 1850-1990 / by Rodolfo Corona Vásquez -- Anglo-Hispanic Relations in South Texas Schools from 1945 to 1993 - A Triangulated Profile / by Chad Richardson, María Olivia Villarreal-Solano, and Cruz C. Torres -- Reviews / Reseñas.
Rio Bravo: A journal of research and issues Fall 1993 v.3 no.1

Robert M. Salmon and Victor Zuniga

Introduction / The editors -- Clausura de la reunión anual de la Asociación Río Bravo -- Condicionantes ecoómico-políticos en la historia del periodismo fronterismo - El caso de El Mañana de Nuevo Laredo / Jose Carlos Lozano Rendon -- De la esccondida Nayarit a más allá de Los Angeles / Lourdes C. Pacheco Ladron de Guevara -- New Yorkers on the Texas Border: The Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard in the Rio Grande Valley, 1916 / Carl Henry Marcoux -- El Movimiento Villista visto por la Diplomacia Española / Oscar Flores Torres -- Sindicatos agrícolas en el Norte de Tamaulipas y el Sur de Texas: Antecedentes Históricos / Cirila Quintero Ramirez -- La historiografía chicana contemporánea - Nuevos Temas, Enfoques, y problemas para una adecuada teoría y praxis / Sonia Calderoni Bonleux -- Announcement: Official creation of the Rio Bravo Association -- Guia para los Autores: Rio Bravo.
Rio Bravo: A journal of research and issues Spring 1993 v.2 no.2

Robert M. Salmon and Victor Zuniga

Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas: Cincuenta años de crecimiento urbano 1940-1990 / by Eduardo Alarcó Cantú -- Cambios en la estructura corporativa en Baja California: Un estudio de los gremios de taxistas de la CTN en Tijuana / by Tania Hernánez Vicencio -- Beyond the Nueces: The Early Geographical Identity of South Texas / by Daniel D. Arreola -- The Ramifications of IRCA Employer Sanctions : A Case Study of An East Texas Community / by Gayle K. Berardi -- Improving Living Conditions in Colonias in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas / by J. Michael Patrick and Armando Alonso -- Means and Ends: Two Border-Blasters / by Jim B. Shattuck -- Announcement: Official Creation of the Río Bravo Association.
Rio Bravo: A bilingual journal of international studies Spring 1992 v.1 no.2

Robert M. Salmon and Victor Zuniga

Higher Education and Borderlands Telecommunications in Texas, California, and Arizona / Armando A. Arias, Jr. and Beryl Bellman -- Tamaulipas - la Ausencia de Oposicion Politica y la Persistencia de los Factores Culturales Corporativos - el Caso de Matamoros / Vicente Sanchez-Mungia -- Sindicalismo Tradicional en Maquiladoras - el Caso de Matamoros / Cirila Quintero Ramirez -- Estancia temporal de migrantes indocumentados en Tijuana - Una estimacion sobre su aportacion a la economia de la ciudad / Maria Eugenia Anguiano -- Latin America - Illusions and Reality / Rafael A. Lecuona -- George Baker's 'Mexican Labor is Not Cheap' - a Rejoinder and Critical Commentary / Ellwyn R. Stoddard -- XV Simposio de Historia y Antropologia de Sonora. Memoria. 3 Vols, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas de la Unison, 1991 -- La Revista Cultura Norte -- Borderlife Project -- Author's Guidelines - Rio Bravo.
Rio Bravo: A journal of research and issues Fall 1992 v.2 no.1

Robert M. Salmon and Victor Zuniga

Usos del Suelo y Configuración de la Estructura Urbana en Ciudad Juárez, Chih., (1960-1990) / by Cesar M. Fuentes -- César Chávez, the United Farm Workers and Mexican Immigration / by Richard Griswold del Castillo -- Texas Higher Education and Border Funding Inequities: Implication for Border Universities and Transborder Cooperation / by Ellwyn R. Stoddard -- Texas Discovers Its Mexican Neighbors: Border-State Governmental Relations, 1978-1991 / by E. V. Niemeyer, Jr. -- The Mexican Crisis and the Segmented Labor Market of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas / by Joseph Spielberg Benitez -- Medicalization of the U.S.-Mexico Border: Is it Really Needed / by Paul Villas and Erin Frew -- Reviews / Reseñas -- Guia para los Autores / Author's Guidelines.
Rio Bravo: A bilingual journal of international studies Fall 1991 v.1 no.1

Robert M. Salmon and Victor Zuniga

Río Bravo: An Introduction -- Mexican Labor is Not Cheap / by George Baker -- Enfoques teóricos para el estudio de la cultura en la frontera de Mexico con Estados Unidos / José Carlos Lozano -- Los locos del barrio o la ostentación del estigma: Identidad social y frontera en una pandilla de Matamoros, Tamaulipas / by Victor Zúñiga -- English as a Second Language: The Teachers' Perspective / by Pamela McCurdy -- Decentralization Works: China and Mexico Make it Happen in Health Care Delivery / by Paul Villas, Janet L. Lile, and Hector Pérez-Coronado --U.S. Prisoners in Border Prisons in Tamaulipas, Mexico / by J. Michael Olivero --Lampazos and the Mexican Revolution / by Ward S. Albro III