Scope and Contents

The Border Music Collection is comprised of interviews with artists and commercial music recorded locally. Collection materials range from norteña, orquesta regional, conjunto, and banda music to electronic and techno hybrid genres like nor-tech (norteño-techno) – each reflecting borderlands cultural formations.

Scope and Contents

Local research on border security that focuses on the sociological and ecological ramifications of the border wall'€™s construction along the South-Texas Rio Grande River.

Scope and Contents

Life histories of local families and traces of their land acquisition to first European contact in the borderlands.

Scope and Contents

Materials from local photographers, popular media, and other print materials that represent the culture, ecology, and social dynamics of South Texas.

Scope and Contents

Latinas and Politics is a developing project for the Border Studies Archive. If you are interested in participating in the development of this area of study, please contact us.

Scope and Contents

A bilingual collection featuring over 100,000 items ranging from topics such as La Llorona, curanderismo, the chupacabra and the devil at the dance hall.

Scope and Contents

1 45 RPM record with piano score and guitar chords. Spanish lyrics with English transcripts.

Scope and Contents

The collection contains non-privileged files pertaining to litigation regarding petroleum hydrocarbon contamination of properties on and around 23rd Street and Business 83 in McAllen, Texas. Documents include trial transcripts and proceedings, technical research and reports, and witness testimony relating to the southern and northern plume cases.

Abstract The Curanderismo Collection is comprised of materials from the College of Health Sciences and Human Services. Curanderismo, or folk healing, involves a trained healer, or curandero(a), who treats a person experiencing physical or spiritual illness.Dr. Robert Trotter (Medical Anthropologist) and Juan Antonio Chavira (Medical Sociologist/Anthropologist) produced the curanderismo materials in a project during the late 1970s in South Texas. The project, "Proyecto Comprender" served...