Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Tradition – serie
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16 produkter
Voices in the Kitchen
Views of Food and the World from Working-class Mexican and Mexican American Women
Häftad, 2006
246 kr
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Through the ages and across cultures, women have carved out a domain in which their cooking allowed them to express themselves, strengthen family relationships, and create a world of shared meanings with other women. In ""Voices in the Kitchen"", Meredith E. Abarca features the voices of her mother …
Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas
Mexican Workers and Job Politics During World War II
Häftad, 2008
303 kr
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In "Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas", Emilio Zamora traces the experiences of Mexican workers on the American home front during World War II as they moved from rural to urban areas and sought better-paying jobs in rapidly expanding industries. Contending that discrimination undermined …
They All Want Magic
Curanderas and Folk Healing
Häftad, 2009
218 kr
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Curanderas - traditional healers in Mexican culture - bridge the gaps between multiple planes of existence - spiritual and material, modern and pre-modern - dispensing medicinal herbs, prayers, and instruction. Elizabeth de la Portilla writes of the world and practices of San Antonio curanderas. As …
Capturing Nature
The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodríguez
Häftad, 2014
309 kr
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Over a period of some twenty years, Mexican-born artisan Dionicio Rodríguez created imaginative sculptures of reinforced concrete that imitated the natural forms and textures of trees and rocks. He worked in eight different states from 1924 through the early 1950s but spent much of his early career …
Telling Border Life Stories
Four Mexican American Women Writers
Häftad, 2019
316 kr
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Voices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara ably demonstrates in this investigation into the twentieth-century autobiographical writing of four women of Mexican origin who lived in the American Southwest.Until recently, little attention …
Mestizo Democracy
The Politics of Crossing Borders
Häftad, 2003
216 kr
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It can come as no surprise that the ethnic makeup of the American population is rapidly changing. In this volume, John Francis Burke offers a mestizo theory of democracy and traces its implications for public policy. Mestizo, meaning ""mixture,"" is a term from the Mexican socio-political …
Voices in the Kitchen
Views of Food and the World from Working-class Mexican and Mexican American Women
Inbunden, 2006
453 kr
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Through the ages and across cultures, women have carved out a domain in which their cooking allowed them to express themselves, strengthen family relationships, and create a world of shared meanings with other women. In ""Voices in the Kitchen"", Meredith E. Abarca features the voices of her mother …
Legacy of Americo Paredes
Inbunden, 2006
481 kr
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Americo Paredes (1915-99) is one of the seminal figures in Mexican American studies. With this first book-length biography of Paredes, author Jose R. Lopez Morin offers fresh insight into the life and work of this influential scholar, as well as the close relationship between his experience and his …
Remembering the Hacienda
History and Memory in the Mexican American Southwest
Inbunden, 2006
582 kr
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What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. In ""Remembering the Hacienda"", Vincent Perez makes the case that the hacienda offers the emblem of an ""antebellum,"" agrarian social order that predates …
Legacy of Americo Paredes
Häftad, 2006
229 kr
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Americo Paredes (1915-99) is one of the seminal figures in Mexican American studies. With this first book-length biography of Paredes, author Jose R. Lopez Morin offers fresh insight into the life and work of this influential scholar, as well as the close relationship between his experience and his …
Remembering the Hacienda
History and Memory in the Mexican American Southwest
Häftad, 2006
280 kr
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What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. In ""Remembering the Hacienda"", Vincent Perez makes the case that the hacienda offers the emblem of an ""antebellum,"" agrarian social order that predates …
Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas
Mexican Workers and Job Politics During World War II
Inbunden, 2009
677 kr
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In "Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas", Emilio Zamora traces the experiences of Mexican workers on the American home front during World War II as they moved from rural to urban areas and sought better-paying jobs in rapidly expanding industries. Contending that discrimination undermined …
Wealth of Selves
Multiple Identities, Mestiza Consciousness, and the Subject of Politics
Inbunden, 2008
398 kr
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Many of us have multiple identities, says Edwina Barvosa. We may view ourselves according to ethnicity, marital or family roles, political affiliation, sexuality, or any of several other ""identities"" we may use to organize our behavior and self-understanding at any given time. Various domains …
Moctezuma's Table
Rolando Briseno's Mexican and Chicano Tablescapes
Inbunden, 2010
496 kr
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The table provides the food that sustains physical life. It is also the setting for people to share the fellowship that sustains cultural, community, and political life. In the vision of artist Rolando Briseño, food is a powerful metaphor, a way of understanding how culture nurtures the spirit. …
Telling Border Life Stories
Four Mexican American Women Writers
Inbunden, 2013
778 kr
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Voices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara ably demonstrates in this investigation into the twentieth-century autobiographical writing of four women of Mexican origin who lived in the American Southwest. Until recently, little attention …
Artisans of Trabajo Rústico
The Legacy of Dionicio Rodríguez
Inbunden, 2021
409 kr
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As documented in Patsy Pittman Light's award-winning book, Capturing Nature, Mexican artisan Dionicio RodrÍguez arrived in San Antonio in the 1920s and created concrete bus stop shelters, park benches, footbridges, and other structures in the style known as faux bois, or trabajo rÚstico. Following …
