Revolvers and pistolas, vaqueros and caballeros : debunking the Old West / D.H. Figueredo.

"Early Anglo settlers in the Old West crafted negative images of Latinos in part to help justify the takeover of land occupied by Mexicans and Spaniards at the time. Unfortunately, these depictions were perpetuated throughout the 20th century in art, popular culture, and media...eventually reshaping...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Intersections of race, ethnicity, and culture.
Main Author: Figueredo, D. H., 1951-
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2015]
Series:Intersections of race, ethnicity, and culture.
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans > West (U.S.) > History.
Mexicans > West (U.S.) > History.
Spaniards > West (U.S.) > History.
Cowboys > West (U.S.) > History.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) > United States > History.
Hispanic Americans in popular culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies.
HISTORY / Study & Teaching.
West (U.S.) > History > Errors, inventions, etc.
West (U.S.) > Ethnic relations > History.
West (U.S.) > In popular culture.
West (U.S.) > Folklore.
Genre:
Folklore.
Physical Description:xii, 281 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: The Culture of Negation
  • Terms of Mythology
  • Cibola : Seven Cities of Gold
  • The Horse, the Native American, the Vaquero, and the Cowboy
  • Greater Glory : For God, Church, and King
  • The Long-gone Harm of the Dons
  • The Not So Wild Frontier
  • Guerra! War!
  • Gold in Them Hills
  • Song of the Banditos
  • The Sins of Katy Jurado
  • Western Icons
  • The Vaquero Sunset.