Professor writes text that touts Tejanos’ role in Texas’ past

Posted on: October 9th, 2005
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“For decades, Texas history books have portrayed Hispanics as an enemy of the state, a group that had to be conquered and civilized by the likes of Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston.

In reality, Hispanics were never the enemy, and many leaders such as Jose Antonio Navarro and Juan Segu’n worked with Anglos to develop the Texas we live in today, according to a Texas State University professor who just finished writing a new Texas history textbook.”

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