Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States – serie
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Homecoming Queers
Desire and Difference in Chicana Latina Cultural Production
Häftad, 2009
382 kr
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Homecoming Queers provides a critical discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the United States to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater spaces. Marivel T. Danielson's analysis reveals the extensive legacy …
Dance and the Hollywood Latina
Race, Sex, and Stardom
Häftad, 2010
467 kr
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Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history, from Dolores Del Rio in the 1920s to Jennifer Lopez in the 2000s, began as a dancer or danced onscreen. While cinematic depictions of women and minorities have seemingly improved, a century of representing brown women …
Making of Chicana/o Studies
In the Trenches of Academe
Häftad, 2011
481 kr
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The Making of Chicana/o Studies traces the philosophy and historical development of the field of Chicana/o studies from precursor movements to the Civil Rights era to today, focusing its lens on the political machinations in higher education that sought to destroy the discipline. As a renowned …
Disenchanting Citizenship
Mexican Migrants and the Boundaries of Belonging
Inbunden, 2012
1462 kr
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Central to contemporary debates in the United States on migration and migrant policy is the idea of citizenship, and-as apparent in the continued debate over Arizona’s immigration law SB 1070-this issue remains a focal point of contention, with a key concern being whether there should be a path to …
Disenchanting Citizenship
Mexican Migrants and the Boundaries of Belonging
Häftad, 2012
405 kr
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Central to contemporary debates in the United States on migration and migrant policy is the idea of citizenship, and-as apparent in the continued debate over Arizona’s immigration law SB 1070-this issue remains a focal point of contention, with a key concern being whether there should be a path to …
Becoming Mexipino
Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego
Inbunden, 2012
1737 kr
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Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic groups, one Mexican, the other Filipino, whose paths led both groups to San Diego, California. Rudy Guevarra traces the earliest interactions of both groups with Spanish colonialism to illustrate how these historical ties and …
Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking
Out from Hollywood's Shadow, 1929-1939
Inbunden, 2012
1844 kr
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Silent film was universally understood and could be exported anywhere. But when “talkies” arrived, the industry began experimenting with dubbing, subtitling, and dual track productions in more than one language. Where language fractured the European film market, for Spanish-speaking countries and …
Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking
Out from Hollywood's Shadow, 1929-1939
Häftad, 2012
448 kr
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Silent film was universally understood and could be exported anywhere. But when “talkies” arrived, the industry began experimenting with dubbing, subtitling, and dual track productions in more than one language. Where language fractured the European film market, for Spanish-speaking countries and …
Zapotecs on the Move
Cultural, Social, and Political Processes in Transnational Perspective
Häftad, 2013
426 kr
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Through interviews with three generations of YalÁlag Zapotecs (“YalÁltecos”) in Los Angeles and YalÁlag, Oaxaca, this book examines the impact of international migration on this community. It traces five decades of migration to Los Angeles in order to delineate migration patterns, community …
Domestic Negotiations
Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art
Häftad, 2013
447 kr
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Winner of the 2014 NACCS Tejas Non-Fiction Book AwardThis interdisciplinary study explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through “negotiation”—a concept that accounts for …
Domestic Negotiations
Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art
Inbunden, 2013
1681 kr
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Winner of the 2014 NACCS Tejas Non-Fiction Book AwardThis interdisciplinary study explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through “negotiation”—a concept that accounts for …
Hidden Chicano Cinema
Film Dramas in the Borderlands
Häftad, 2013
430 kr
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Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking, a disposition stretching from the silent era to …
Hidden Chicano Cinema
Film Dramas in the Borderlands
Inbunden, 2013
1552 kr
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Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking, a disposition stretching from the silent era to …
Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature
Explorations of Place and Belonging
Häftad, 2013
447 kr
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This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writers …
Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature
Explorations of Place and Belonging
Inbunden, 2013
1681 kr
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This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writers …
Borderlands Saints
Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture
Häftad, 2013
495 kr
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Winner of the 2014 Latina/o Studies Section - LASA Outstanding Book AwardIn Borderlands Saints, DesirÉe A. MartÍn examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Focusing specifically on Teresa Urrea (La Santa de Cabora), …
Borderlands Saints
Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture
Inbunden, 2013
1681 kr
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Winner of the 2014 Latina/o Studies Section - LASA Outstanding Book AwardIn Borderlands Saints, DesirÉe A. MartÍn examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Focusing specifically on Teresa Urrea (La Santa de Cabora), …
Family Activism
Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship
Häftad, 2014
458 kr
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During the past ten years, legal and political changes in the United States have dramatically altered the legalization process for millions of undocumented immigrants and their families. Faced with fewer legalization options, immigrants without legal status and their supporters have organized …
Family Activism
Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship
Inbunden, 2014
1753 kr
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During the past ten years, legal and political changes in the United States have dramatically altered the legalization process for millions of undocumented immigrants and their families. Faced with fewer legalization options, immigrants without legal status and their supporters have organized …
Salvadoran Imaginaries
Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption
Häftad, 2014
400 kr
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Ravaged by civil war throughout the 1980s and 1990s, El Salvador has now emerged as a study in contradictions. It is a country where urban call centers and shopping malls exist alongside rural poverty. It is a land now at peace but still grappling with a legacy of violence. It is a place marked by …
Salvadoran Imaginaries
Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption
Inbunden, 2014
1506 kr
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Ravaged by civil war throughout the 1980s and 1990s, El Salvador has now emerged as a study in contradictions. It is a country where urban call centers and shopping malls exist alongside rural poverty. It is a land now at peace but still grappling with a legacy of violence. It is a place marked by …
Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán
From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement
Av Xóchitl Bada
Häftad, 2014
417 kr
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Chicago is home to the second-largest Mexican immigrant population in the United States, yet the activities of this community have gone relatively unexamined by both the media and academia. In this groundbreaking new book, XÓchitl Bada takes us inside one of the most vital parts of Chicago’s …
Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán
From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement
Av Xóchitl Bada
Inbunden, 2014
1506 kr
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Chicago is home to the second-largest Mexican immigrant population in the United States, yet the activities of this community have gone relatively unexamined by both the media and academia. In this groundbreaking new book, XÓchitl Bada takes us inside one of the most vital parts of Chicago’s …
Dream Nation
Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence
Häftad, 2014
400 kr
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Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In the provocative new book Dream Nation, MarÍa Acosta Cruz investigates the …
Aloha Compadre
Latinxs in Hawai'i
Häftad, 2023
424 kr
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Awarded honorable mention for the 2024 International Latino Book Awards in The Dolores Huerta Best Cultural & Community Themed Book – English category.Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawaiʻi is the first book to examine the collective history and contemporary experiences of the Latinx population of …
Aloha Compadre
Latinxs in Hawai'i
Inbunden, 2023
1789 kr
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Awarded honorable mention for the 2024 International Latino Book Awards in The Dolores Huerta Best Cultural & Community Themed Book – English category.Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawaiʻi is the first book to examine the collective history and contemporary experiences of the Latinx population of …
Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos
Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico
Häftad, 2014
382 kr
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Hidden lives, hidden history, and hidden manuscripts. In The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos, Marie-Theresa HernÁndez unmasks the secret lives of conversos and judaizantes and their likely influence onthe Catholic Churchin the New World.The terms converso and judaizante are often used for …
Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos
Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico
Inbunden, 2014
1462 kr
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Hidden lives, hidden history, and hidden manuscripts. In The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos, Marie-Theresa HernÁndez unmasks the secret lives of conversos and judaizantes and their likely influence onthe Catholic Churchin the New World.The terms converso and judaizante are often used for …
Mexico on Main Street
Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles Before World War II
Häftad, 2015
481 kr
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In the early decades of the twentieth-century, Main Street was the heart of Los Angeles’s Mexican immigrant community. It was also the hub for an extensive, largely forgotten film culture that thrived in L.A. during the early days of Hollywood. Drawing from rare archives, including the city’s …
Mexico on Main Street
Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles Before World War II
Inbunden, 2015
1731 kr
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In the early decades of the twentieth-century, Main Street was the heart of Los Angeles’s Mexican immigrant community. It was also the hub for an extensive, largely forgotten film culture that thrived in L.A. during the early days of Hollywood. Drawing from rare archives, including the city’s …
