Branding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State

by Leigh Clemons

Book Overview

Ask anyone to name an archetypal Texan, and you're likely to get a larger-than-life character from film or television (say John Wayne's Davy Crockett or J. R. Ewing of TV's Dallas) or a politician with that certain swagger (think LBJ or George W. Bush). That all of these figures are white and male and bursting with self-confidence is no accident, asserts Leigh Clemons. In this thoughtful study of what makes a "Texan," she reveals how Texan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292739370
• ISBN13: 9780292739376
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"