Writing about Texas, Mexico, and Texan-Mexican relations for over
four decades, Dick J. Reavis is one of the most poignant political
voices of Texas-not as a politician, though his writings are
infused with politics, but as a candid, unsentimental, probing,
journalist. Author of ten books and hundreds of articles, Reavis
has worked as a reporter, features author, and staff writer (San
Antonio Express-News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Observer,
San Antonio Light), as an Associated Editor of Texas Monthly, and
as a professor of journalism (North Carolina State University).
Throughout his award-winning career, he has returned consistently
to investigate the lives of everyday Texans, insistently
challenging prevailing political assumptions. It was precisely this
commitment that prompted him to investigate the federal
government's siege of the Branch Davidians in 1993 outside of Waco,
TX, which led to perhaps his most notorious publication, The Ashes
of Waco: An Investigation (1995). That project, however, needs to
be contextualized in relation to the greater body of his writings,
which includes investigations of Mexican guerillas and Texas
biker-gangs, the struggles of urban day-laborers and of
undocumented immigrants in rural areas, the politics of Texas
Radicals during the Civil Rights movement, and the activities of
the Klan across the state, to identify but a few. This collection
of Reavis's writings brings into focus the voice and political
commitments of this critical, contemporary, Texas writer.
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