How Long to Read Gente Decente

How Long Does it Take to Read Gente Decente?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 36 minutes to read Gente Decente by Leticia Magda Garza-Falcón

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In his books The Great Plains, The Great Frontier, and The Texas Rangers, historian Walter Prescott Webb created an enduring image of fearless, white, Anglo male settlers and lawmen bringing civilization to an American Southwest plagued with "savage" Indians and Mexicans. So popular was Webb's vision that it influenced generations of historians and artists in all media and effectively silenced the counter-narratives that Mexican American writers and historians were concurrently producing to claim their standing as "gente decente," people of worth. These counter-narratives form the subject of Leticia M. Garza-Falcón's study. She explores how prominent writers of Mexican descent-such as Jovita González, Américo Paredes, María Cristina Mena, Fermina Guerra, Beatriz de la Garza, and Helena María Viramontes -have used literature to respond to the dominative history of the United States, which offered retrospective justification for expansionist policies in the Southwest and South Texas. Garza-Falcón shows how these counter-narratives capture a body of knowledge and experience excluded from "official" histories, whose "facts" often emerged more from literary techniques than from objective analysis of historical data.

How long is Gente Decente?

Gente Decente by Leticia Magda Garza-Falcón is 327 pages long, and a total of 84,039 words.

This makes it 110% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Gente Decente Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 39 minutes to read Gente Decente aloud.

What Reading Level is Gente Decente?

Gente Decente is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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