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Christina Fernandez

Christina Fernandez

Multiple Exposures

By Rebecca Epstein

Christina Fernandez sees herself as equally artist and storyteller, one who employs photography to explore social and physical isolation and estrangement within marginalized communities while experimenting with composition and form. Her art is shaped by...

ISBN: 9780895512017

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Feminista Frequencies

Feminista Frequencies

Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley

By Monica De La Torre

Beginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listeners across the United States. In rural areas, radio emerged as the most effective medium...

ISBN: 9780295749662

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The Artist as Eyewitness

The Artist as Eyewitness

Antonio Bernal Papers, 1884-2019

By Charlene Villaseñor Black

This first survey of Antonio Bernal’s life and work, The Artist as Eyewitness features essays that assess his murals, situating them within the historical, political, and cultural frameworks of the Chicano movement. It also includes...

ISBN: 9780895511744

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Making Livable Worlds

Making Livable Worlds

Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice

By Hilda Lloréns

When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pummeled by economic austerity, political upheaval, and environmental calamities. To navigate these multiple ongoing...

ISBN: 9780295749402

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The $16 Taco

The $16 Taco

Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification

By Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

Having “discovered” the flavors of barbacoa, bibimbap, bánh mi, sambusas, and pupusas, white middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated neighborhoods in search of “authentic” eateries run by—and for—immigrants and people of color. Fueled...

ISBN: 9780295749280

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Latinx Photography in the United States

Latinx Photography in the United States

A Visual History

By Elizabeth Ferrer

Whether at UFW picket lines in California’s Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as well as the daily lives of ordinary people....

ISBN: 9780295747637

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Autobiography without Apology

Autobiography without Apology

The Personal Essay in Chicanx and Latinx Studies

By Chon A. Noriega, Wendy Laura Belcher, Charlene Villaseñor Black

This collection of essays, drawn from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, focuses on the personal experiences of Chicanx and Latinx scholars, writers, and artists. Each essay is a reflection on the process of self-naming—the...

ISBN: 9780895511737

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The Chicano Studies Reader

The Chicano Studies Reader

An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019

By Chon A. Noriega, Eric Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, Chela Sandoval, Rafael Pérez-Torres, Charlene Villaseñor Black

The Chicano Studies Reader, the best-selling anthology of articles from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded with a group of essays that focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth. This section, Generations...

ISBN: 9780895511720

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La Raza

La Raza

By Colin Gunckel, Luis C. Garza, Amy Scott

La Raza, launched in 1967 in the basement of an Eastside LA church, was conceived as a tool for community-based organizing during the early days of the Chicano movement. The all-volunteer staff of the newspaper—and...

ISBN: 9780895511652

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Barrio Harmonics

Barrio Harmonics

Essays on Chicano / Latino Music

By Steven Loza

This collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics,...

ISBN: 9780895511676

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Transnational Testimonios

Transnational Testimonios

The Politics of Collective Knowledge Production

By Patricia DeRocher

The activist storytelling practice of testimonio, long associated with Latin American struggles for justice, forges coalitions across social differences for the purpose of social change. Beyond Central and South America, Patricia DeRocher examines testimonios from...

ISBN: 9780295743912

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Bracero Railroaders

Bracero Railroaders

The Forgotten World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. West

By Erasmo Gamboa

Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border...

ISBN: 9780295744278

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The <i>Aztlan</i> Mexican Studies Reader, 1974-2016

The Aztlan Mexican Studies Reader, 1974-2016

By Hector Calderon

This set of essays explores the ongoing cultural and political connections between Chicana/o and Mexican history. Edited and introduced by Héctor Calderón, The Aztlán Mexican Studies Reader, 1974–2016 presents thirteen previously published essays together with...

ISBN: 9780895511690

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The Chicana/o Education Pipeline

The Chicana/o Education Pipeline

History, Institutional Critique, and Resistance

By Michaela J. L. Mares-Tamayo, Daniel G. Solorzano

This anthology explores the relationships between Chicana/o students, families, and communities and the various school settings that comprise the education pipeline, from Kindergarten classrooms through postsecondary programs and postgraduate experiences. The essays, which appeared in...

ISBN: 9780895511669

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Home — So Different, So Appealing

Home — So Different, So Appealing

By Chon A. Noriega, Mari Carmen Ramirez, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas

Home — signaling a dwelling, residence or place of origin — embodies one of the most basic concepts for understanding an individual or group within a larger physical and social environment. Yet home has been...

ISBN: 9780895511645

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American Sabor

American Sabor

Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music / Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense

By Marisol Berríos-Miranda, Shannon Dudley, and Michelle Habell-Pallán. Translated by Angie Berríos Miranda

Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to move. American Sabor traces the substantial musical contributions...

ISBN: 9780295742625

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Laura Aguilar

Laura Aguilar

Show and Tell

By Rebecca Epstein, Sybil Venegas

Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell surveys the career of Laura Aguilar, a Chicana photographer who is most widely known for black-and-white nude self-portraits that are frank and self-assertive, yet deeply sensitive and poetic. In photographs...

ISBN: 9780895511683

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Altermundos

Altermundos

Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture

By Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson, B. V. Olguin

Speculative fiction—encompassing both science fiction and fantasy—has emerged as a dynamic field within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, producing new critical vocabularies and approaches to topics that include colonialism and modernity, immigration and globalization, race and...

ISBN: 9780895511638

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Jose Montoya

Jose Montoya's Abundant Harvest

Works on Paper / Works on Life

By Richard Montoya, Selene Preciado

Chicano activist, poet, artist, intellectual, professor, and musician, José Montoya (1932–2013) was a veritable Renaissance man. Montoya often found inspiration in the verdant fields of the San Joaquin Valley where his family arrived from their...

ISBN: 9780990762621

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Living Together, Living Apart

Living Together, Living Apart

Mixed Status Families and US Immigration Policy

By April Schueths, Jodie Lawston, Mary Romero

Immigration reform remains one of the most contentious issues in the United States today. For mixed status families—families that include both citizens and noncitizens—this is more than a political issue: it’s a deeply personal one....

ISBN: 9780295995304

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