Raúl A Ramos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raúl A Ramos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raúl A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramos |
| SIGNATURE | RAMOS R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reverberations of Racial Violence
In 2014, a collective of historians began to develop a public history project in anticipation of the centennial of state sanctioned anti-Mexican violence in South Texas known as La Matanza. That organizing produced the Refusing to Forget project, made up of public history exhibits, new historical markers, academic research and lectures, digital engagement, and curricular lesson plans. Since then, Refusing to Forget has continued to grow and gain …
Borderland Narratives
The essays in Borderlands Narrative explore the analytical power of a borderlands approach to understanding early American history on the frontiers with indigenous peoples from the Ohio River valley to Florida. The eight case studies cover the period from first European settlement to American expansion. Taken together, the chapters present race making and accommodation as a complex, multivariate process at the margins of imperial expansion. The b…
The Southern Exodus to Mexico
Book Review| August 01 2018 The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War. By Wahlstrom, Todd W.. Borderlands and Transcultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. Map. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxvii, 189 pp. Cloth, $55.00. Raúl A. Ramos Raúl A. Ramos University of Housto…
Corazón de Dixie
While ethnic Mexicans appear as relative newcomers in current political and historical descriptions of the American South, Julie M. Weise’s sweeping examination of Mexican people in the region forces readers to rethink their ideas of Southern history, labor history, and the history of race in America. Mexican people appear everywhere in the South but, more importantly in Weise’s treatment, not as a monolithic, homogenous community. Rather a diver…
The Borderlands of Race
In The Borderlands of Race the anthropologist Jennifer R. Nájera merges microhistorical analysis and participant-observer anthropology to uncover the development and dismantling of racial segregation of ethnic Mexican people along the Texas border. Nájera utilizes the small town of La Feria, Texas, to reveal the institutional and cultural structures that shaped social relations along racial lines. She argues that the Mexican community there found…
Violent entertainment and cooperative behavior
The impact of violent entertainment on viewer behavior remains disputed in the academic community. Although most studies focus on negative outcomes such as aggression, some studies also consider whether violent entertainment may reduce positive behaviors such as cooperation. The current article describes 2 studies of violent TV influences on cooperative behavior. The first study examined whether exposure to violent TV shows impacted cooperative b…
Comfortably numb or just yet another movie? Media violence exposure does not reduce viewer empathy for victims of real violence among primarily Hispanic viewers
Continued debate exists regarding the impact of media violence exposure on viewers’ thoughts and behaviors. One facet of this debate has focused on the possibility that viewing media violence may desensitize viewers to the suffering of others and reduce their empathy. In the current study, 238 mostly Hispanic, young adults were randomized to watch either a violent or nonviolent TV show. Participants also watched clips of either fictional victims …
Chicano/a History
This article surveys the writing of Chicano/a history since its inception and reflects on why scholars have been concerned with certain issues and how they have written about them. Born from the tumult of the Vietnam era, the field has challenged the status quo and emboldened those communities from which Chicano/a historians come and which they ultimately serve. Given the generation-long development of Mexican American history, this article focus…
Chicano/a Challenges to Nineteenth-Century History
This article explores the usefulness of Chicano/a history to teaching and representing the nineteenth-century history of northern Mexico, U.S. imperial expansion, and the constructed nature of borders. Typically considered a twentieth-century discipline, Chicano/a historians have a long history of engaging the subject in the nineteenth century. This focus dovetails with recent critical works on race and gender in the U.S. West as well as transnat…
Reframing Borderland Studies
Beyond the Alamo
Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, this book places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. It focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. The book explores the factors that helped shape the ethnic identity of the Tejano population, including cross-cultural contacts between Bexarenos, indigenous group…
Making Lemonade out of Lemons
Journal Article Making Lemonade Out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1880–1960 Get access Making Lemonade Out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1880–1960. By Alamillo José M.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xii + 220 pp. Illustrations, notes, index, $60.00, cloth; $25.00, paper.) RaÚl A. Ramos RaÚl A. Ramos University of Houston Search for other works by this autho…
Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community
Book Review| January 01 2005 Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict, and Solidarity Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict, and Solidarity, Gilda L. Ochoa. Raúl A. Ramos Raúl A. Ramos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (2): 140–142. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501589 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Thread of Blood
Journal Article Thread of Blood: Colonialism, Revolution, and Gender on Mexico's Northern Frontier Get access Thread of Blood: Colonialism, Revolution, and Gender on Mexico's Northern Frontier. By Alonso Ana María. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. xi + 303 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Raúl A. Ramos Raúl A. Ramos University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Tejano Religion and Ethnicity
Journal Article Tejano Religion and Ethnicity: San Antonio, 1821–1860 Get access Tejano Religion and Ethnicity: San Antonio, 1821–1860. By Matovina Timothy M.. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. xi + 168 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) Raúl A. Ramos Raúl A. Ramos New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Pages 91–92…
The Borderlands of Race
In The Borderlands of Race the anthropologist Jennifer R. Nájera merges microhistorical analysis and participant-observer anthropology to uncover the development and dismantling of racial segregation of ethnic Mexican people along the Texas border. Nájera utilizes the small town of La Feria, Texas, to reveal the institutional and cultural structures that shaped social relations along racial lines. She argues that the Mexican community there found…
Chicano/a History
This article surveys the writing of Chicano/a history since its inception and reflects on why scholars have been concerned with certain issues and how they have written about them. Born from the tumult of the Vietnam era, the field has challenged the status quo and emboldened those communities from which Chicano/a historians come and which they ultimately serve. Given the generation-long development of Mexican American history, this article focus…
Comfortably numb or just yet another movie? Media violence exposure does not reduce viewer empathy for victims of real violence among primarily Hispanic viewers
Continued debate exists regarding the impact of media violence exposure on viewers’ thoughts and behaviors. One facet of this debate has focused on the possibility that viewing media violence may desensitize viewers to the suffering of others and reduce their empathy. In the current study, 238 mostly Hispanic, young adults were randomized to watch either a violent or nonviolent TV show. Participants also watched clips of either fictional victims …
Chicano/a Challenges to Nineteenth-Century History
This article explores the usefulness of Chicano/a history to teaching and representing the nineteenth-century history of northern Mexico, U.S. imperial expansion, and the constructed nature of borders. Typically considered a twentieth-century discipline, Chicano/a historians have a long history of engaging the subject in the nineteenth century. This focus dovetails with recent critical works on race and gender in the U.S. West as well as transnat…
Thread of Blood
Journal Article Thread of Blood: Colonialism, Revolution, and Gender on Mexico's Northern Frontier Get access Thread of Blood: Colonialism, Revolution, and Gender on Mexico's Northern Frontier. By Alonso Ana María. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. xi + 303 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Raúl A. Ramos Raúl A. Ramos University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Tejano Religion and Ethnicity
Journal Article Tejano Religion and Ethnicity: San Antonio, 1821–1860 Get access Tejano Religion and Ethnicity: San Antonio, 1821–1860. By Matovina Timothy M.. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. xi + 168 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) Raúl A. Ramos Raúl A. Ramos New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Pages 91–92…
Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community
Book Review| January 01 2005 Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict, and Solidarity Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict, and Solidarity, Gilda L. Ochoa. Raúl A. Ramos Raúl A. Ramos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (2): 140–142. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501589 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Making Lemonade out of Lemons
Journal Article Making Lemonade Out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1880–1960 Get access Making Lemonade Out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1880–1960. By Alamillo José M.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xii + 220 pp. Illustrations, notes, index, $60.00, cloth; $25.00, paper.) RaÚl A. Ramos RaÚl A. Ramos University of Houston Search for other works by this autho…
Beyond the Alamo
Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, this book places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. It focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. The book explores the factors that helped shape the ethnic identity of the Tejano population, including cross-cultural contacts between Bexarenos, indigenous group…
Reframing Borderland Studies
Comfortably numb or just yet another movie? Media violence exposure does not reduce viewer empathy for victims of real violence among primarily Hispanic viewers
Continued debate exists regarding the impact of media violence exposure on viewers’ thoughts and behaviors. One facet of this debate has focused on the possibility that viewing media violence may desensitize viewers to the suffering of others and reduce their empathy. In the current study, 238 mostly Hispanic, young adults were randomized to watch either a violent or nonviolent TV show. Participants also watched clips of either fictional victims …
Chicano/a History
This article surveys the writing of Chicano/a history since its inception and reflects on why scholars have been concerned with certain issues and how they have written about them. Born from the tumult of the Vietnam era, the field has challenged the status quo and emboldened those communities from which Chicano/a historians come and which they ultimately serve. Given the generation-long development of Mexican American history, this article focus…
Chicano/a Challenges to Nineteenth-Century History
This article explores the usefulness of Chicano/a history to teaching and representing the nineteenth-century history of northern Mexico, U.S. imperial expansion, and the constructed nature of borders. Typically considered a twentieth-century discipline, Chicano/a historians have a long history of engaging the subject in the nineteenth century. This focus dovetails with recent critical works on race and gender in the U.S. West as well as transnat…
Violent entertainment and cooperative behavior
The impact of violent entertainment on viewer behavior remains disputed in the academic community. Although most studies focus on negative outcomes such as aggression, some studies also consider whether violent entertainment may reduce positive behaviors such as cooperation. The current article describes 2 studies of violent TV influences on cooperative behavior. The first study examined whether exposure to violent TV shows impacted cooperative b…
The Borderlands of Race
In The Borderlands of Race the anthropologist Jennifer R. Nájera merges microhistorical analysis and participant-observer anthropology to uncover the development and dismantling of racial segregation of ethnic Mexican people along the Texas border. Nájera utilizes the small town of La Feria, Texas, to reveal the institutional and cultural structures that shaped social relations along racial lines. She argues that the Mexican community there found…
Corazón de Dixie
While ethnic Mexicans appear as relative newcomers in current political and historical descriptions of the American South, Julie M. Weise’s sweeping examination of Mexican people in the region forces readers to rethink their ideas of Southern history, labor history, and the history of race in America. Mexican people appear everywhere in the South but, more importantly in Weise’s treatment, not as a monolithic, homogenous community. Rather a diver…
The Southern Exodus to Mexico
Book Review| August 01 2018 The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War. By Wahlstrom, Todd W.. Borderlands and Transcultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. Map. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxvii, 189 pp. Cloth, $55.00. Raúl A. Ramos Raúl A. Ramos University of Housto…
Borderland Narratives
The essays in Borderlands Narrative explore the analytical power of a borderlands approach to understanding early American history on the frontiers with indigenous peoples from the Ohio River valley to Florida. The eight case studies cover the period from first European settlement to American expansion. Taken together, the chapters present race making and accommodation as a complex, multivariate process at the margins of imperial expansion. The b…
Reverberations of Racial Violence
In 2014, a collective of historians began to develop a public history project in anticipation of the centennial of state sanctioned anti-Mexican violence in South Texas known as La Matanza. That organizing produced the Refusing to Forget project, made up of public history exhibits, new historical markers, academic research and lectures, digital engagement, and curricular lesson plans. Since then, Refusing to Forget has continued to grow and gain …
Latin American and Latino Studies (11 works) · History (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)