By Antonio N. Zavaleta1 Historical scholars perform two types of research. Some historians may produce a lifetime of work without ever examining an original document. An original document is one, which is written or produced during the time-period being studied. Locating…
By Antonio N. Zavaleta1 INTRODUCTION The area north and south of the Rio Grande River, in the vicinity of Brownsville, Texas, is one of the most historically and culturally significant areas along the river, and yet its history has been poorly…
By Antonio N. Zavaleta1 Brownsville's recognition as the city with the second most important history in Texas is cause for considerable pride. However, it should be noted that the designation does not take into consideration an equally significant pre-history. While much…
By Antonio Noe Zavaleta-Reid and Rodolfo R. Flores This was the first war in which the United States took part outside the continental U.S. It started on this side of the river at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma…
THERE FOR THE TAKING In south Texas, the Rio Grande pushes past backyards and shopping malls, ranges and ranches. When the federal government began building fences on this stretch of border, it started with government-owned levee land, but it took land as well,…
The Texas Center for Border and Transnational Studies (TCBTS) was established to address critical cross-border issues and to assist in the facilitation cross-border policy decisions through the creation and support of a cross-border regional planning component. Introduction and Mission…
An Historical Synthesis of the Socio-Economic Interdependence of The Brownsville-Matamoros Border Community to 1986[1] By Antonio N. Zavaleta INTRODUCTION The history of the Brownsville-Matamoros border community brings to life the fullest meaning of the concept of symbiosis. In the…
Mr. Tony Zavaleta Brownsville, Texas April 17, 2018 Dear Tony, I’d like to thank you once more for the help you provided my colleagues and me during our reporting of the proposed Border Wall project, which yesterday received the 2018…
Published by the: Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy Online John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge Mass Kaplan M.A, & Zavaleta, A. (2017 February 25) Despite more than three decades of empirical evidence from sociological and anthropological research…
Antonio Noé Zavaleta, Ph.D.i and Mitchell A. Kaplan, Ph.D.ii INTRODUCTION From 2010 to 2014, the United States experienced an unprecedented rise in undocumented immigration along the Texas-Mexico border.iii The Lower Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sector saw the highest-ever influx…