Jovita gonzalez biography of albert

She saw a disconnect between Mexican-Americans and Anglos so in a lot of her work, she promoted Mexican culture and tried to ease the tensions between each group.

"An extraordinary exploration of Latinas in the United States from the s to the present, this collection of narrative biographies documents the lives of.

She was born into an unordinary family. These stories later became a creative influence upon her work as a folklorist, teacher, and writer. In , when she was just 6 years old, her parents decided to move their family from Roma to San-Antonio so they could receive a better education. This happened to be during the Mexican revolution when many Mexican immigrants were fleeing their country into areas of Texas.

After finishing high school, she enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin but she returned home after her freshman year because she did not have the funds to pay for her education. As a result, she spent a couple of years teaching as "a Head Teacher of a two-teacher school. While she was there, she met J. Frank Dobie, the man that encouraged her to rewrite Mexican folktales that would later be published in his anthology Pure Mexicano as well as the Folklore Publications and the Southwest Review.

Title: Caballero: A Historical Novel.

After graduating from Our Lady of the Lake with a Bachelor of Arts and teaching at Saint Mary's Hall for a couple of years, she was awarded the Lapham Scholarship to fund her education to get her master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin. The main focus of her thesis was to bridge the gap between the Anglos and the Texas-Mexicans.

While she was doing her research, she interviewed Anglos and Texas-Mexicans of all classes so she could see how they viewed each other. Her thesis Master, Dr. Eugene C Barker, did not want to approve of her work at first. He claimed that it did not have enough historical references and was "an interesting but somewhat odd piece of work.