Lars Eighner's US Bookstore Presents The Texas Institute of Letters Authors

David Montejano was born in San Antonio into an old San Antonio family. He was graduated with a BA from The University of Texas at Austin in 1970, and attained two masters and a Phd (1982) at Yale. He has been associate professor of history and sociology and director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, and is now associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

He is the author of Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986, which has been a standard text in borderlands history and ethnic studies since it was first published in 1987. He has contributed many essays, book chapters, and archival biographies, and devised the "Top Ten Percent" plan which was enacted into law in 1997.

Anglos and Mexicans

Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986

by David Montejano