Tejano is a Spanish word used to refer to a person from Texas who is of Mexican descent. The term is also used to distinguish a genre of music that originated from the southern borderlands between Texas and Mexico.
2.
Juan Tejeda and Avelardo Valdez, eds., Puro Conjunto: An Album in Words and Pictures (San Antonio: Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin and Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, 2001), xiv.
3.
Ibid., 215.
4.
Ibid., 5.
5.
James A.Banks, Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies, 7th ed. (New York: Allyn & Bacon , 2003), 6.
6.
Statistics taken from the U.S. Census Bureau News, "Minority Population Tops 100 Million." Accessed May 17, 2007, from http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www./releases/archives/population/010048.html.
7.
Statistics taken from "The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of U.S. Public Schools." Accessed August 30, 2007, from http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=79.
8.
Catherine A. Ragland, "Voz del Pueblo Tejano": Conjunto Music and the Construction of Tejano Identity in South Texas (Master's thesis in ethnomusicology, University of Washington, 1994), 20.
9.
Manuel H.Pena, The Texas-Mexican Conjunto: History of a Working Class Music (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985), 3.
