- Dancing With the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas (New Directions in Anthropological Writing)
- Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry (The New Historicism : Studies in Cultural Poetics, No 17)
- American Encounters: Greaater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture
- Américo Paredes: Culture and Critique
- The Streets of Laredo: Texas Modernity and Its Discontents (American Wests, sponsored by West Texas A&M University)