Roberto R. Calderón, associate professor of history, explores Mexican American history in North Texas in his book Más allá del Río Bravo: breve historia mexicana del norte de Texas.

The book, written with Manuel García y Griego of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, focuses on migration, demography and civil rights. It was written in Spanish and published by the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Mexico, whose officials encouraged the publication.

"They recognized that this was a valuable project and that it provided the research and narrative -- absent up until its publication -- for a specific Mexican community abroad," Calderón says.