The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 102, July 1998 - April, 1999 Page: 644
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Reinventing Texas Government
The Survey of
Organizational
Excellence is
revolutionizing
the operation of
Tcxas state
agencies and
other govern-
mental and
private
organizations.
This book gives a
history of the
survey and its
use under four governors, including
George W Bush. Lauderdale explains what
the survey is, how to use it, and how to apply
its results to organizational change and
improvement. He also gives a broader
perspective by identifying some of the forces
currently impelling change in organizations
throughout our society and exploring where
this push for change is taking us.
217 pp.
$19.95 paperback
Colonias and Public Policy in
Texas and Mexico
Urbanization by Stealth
BY PETER M. WARD
Today in 'lexas, over 1500 colonias offer the
only low-cost housing available to some
400,000 mostly Hispanic working poor. This
book presents the results of a major study of
colonias in three transborder metropolitan
areas and uncovers the reasons why colonias
are spreading so rapidly. Ward compares Texas
colonias with their Mexican counterparts,
many of which have developed into fully
integrated working-class urban communities.
He also describes how Mexican governments
have worked with colonia residents to make
physical improvements and upgrade
services- a model that Texas policymakers
can learn from, he asserts.
307 pp., 41 b&w photos
$19.95 paperback, $45.00 hardcoverThe Making of a Mexican
American Mayor
Raymond L. Telles of El Paso
BY MARI T, BARC IA
Raymond Telles was the first Mexican
American mayor of El Paso,'f xas, and the
most significant Mexican American of his
time. This book details his political career
from 1948, when he won a hotly contested
election for county clerk, to his ambassador
ship to Costa Rica.
Southwestern Studies Series, Distributed
for Texas Western Press
199 pp., 36 b&w photos
$12.50 paperback
Flames after Midnight
Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of
a Texas Community
BY MONiTE A ERS
What happened in Kirven, Texas, in May
1922, has been forgotten by the outsideworld. Writing
nonfiction with
the skill of a
novelist, Akers
tells the true
story of a young
white Woman's
brutal murder
and the burning
alive of three
black men who
were almost
certainly
innocent of it.Mi I) N G. HiT
He paints a vivid portrait of a community
desolated by race hatred and its own refusal
to face hard truths and traces the lynching's
repercussions down the decades to Kirven
in the 1990s, now almost a ghost town.
232 pp., 6 b&w photos
$14.95 paperback, $29.95 hardcover
University of Texas Press
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 102, July 1998 - April, 1999, periodical, 1999; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101219/m1/644/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.