CMAS History, Culture, and Society Series – serie
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10 produkter
Narratives of Greater Mexico
Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders
Häftad, 2005
381 kr
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Once relegated to the borders of literature-neither Mexican nor truly American-Chicana/o writers have always been in the vanguard of change, articulating the multicultural ethnicities, shifting identities, border realities, and even postmodern anxieties and hostilities that already characterize the …
Felix Longoria's Wake
Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism
Häftad, 2003
318 kr
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Winner, Tullis Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2004Private First Class Felix Longoria earned a Bronze Service Star, a Purple Heart, a Good Conduct Medal, and a Combat Infantryman's badge for service in the Philippines during World War II. Yet the only funeral parlor in his hometown of …
Brown Gumshoes
Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity
Häftad, 2005
284 kr
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Winner, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, 2006Popular fiction, with its capacity for diversion, can mask important cultural observations within a framework that is often overlooked in the academic world. Works …
Raúlrsalinas and the Jail Machine
My Weapon Is My Pen
Av Raúl Salinas, Louis G. Mendoza
Häftad, 2006
446 kr
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RaÚl R. Salinas is regarded as one of today's most important Chicano poets and human rights activists, but his passage to this place of distinction took him through four of the most brutal prisons in the country. His singular journey from individual alienation to rage to political resistance …
Remembering the Alamo
Memory, Modernity, and the Master Symbol
Häftad, 2002
283 kr
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"Remember the Alamo!" reverberates through Texas history and culture, but what exactly are we remembering? Over nearly two centuries, the Mexican victory over an outnumbered band of Alamo defenders has been transformed into an American victory for the love of liberty. Why did the historical battle …
Border Renaissance
The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature
Häftad, 2009
349 kr
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The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerful catalyst for the formation of a distinctly Mexican American identity. Confronted by a media frenzy that vilified "Meskins" as the antithesis of Texan liberty, Mexican Americans …
Reading Chican@ Like a Queer
The De-Mastery of Desire
Häftad, 2010
251 kr
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A race-based oppositional paradigm has informed Chicano studies since its emergence. In this work, Sandra K. Soto replaces that paradigm with a less didactic, more flexible framework geared for a queer analysis of the discursive relationship between racialization and sexuality. Through rereadings …
Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States
Av John Tutino
Häftad, 2012
371 kr
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Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration and the drug war. Placing Mexicans and Mexico in the center of American …
Illusion of Inclusion
The Untold Political Story of San Antonio
Häftad, 2000
283 kr
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To many observers, the 1981 election of Henry Cisneros as mayor of San Antonio, Texas, represented the culminating victory in the Chicano community's decades-long struggle for inclusion in the city's political life. Yet, nearly twenty years later, inclusion is still largely an illusion for many …
Barrio-Logos
Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture
Häftad, 2000
327 kr
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Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave birth to much of Chicano history and culture. In this pathfinding book, RaÚl Villa explores how California Chicano/a activists, journalists, writers, artists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the …
