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José Eduardo Limón was born in Corpus Christi, was graduated from Roy Miller High School and to an AA at Del Mar College. He holds a BA in philosophy, a masters in English, and a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor of English, Mexican American studies, and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the Center for Mexican American Studies. He was elected to the TIL in 2000.

Limón's books include: Mexican Ballads and Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry, Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas, and American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture.

Dancing With the Devil

Dancing With the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas

by José E. Limón

Dancing With the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas
by José E. Limón
Much about South Texas is distinctive from the rest of the US-Mexican border areas—or so Mr. Limón, as he was then, taught me in 1971 or so in "Mexican Americans in the Southwest."

Ballads

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry

by José E. Limón

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry
by José E. Limón

Erotics of Culture

American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture

by José E. Limón

American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture
by José E. Limón
Borderlands make for strange cultural bedfellows.