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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

Writing Off the Hyphen

New Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora

By Jose L. Torres-Padilla, Carmen Haydee Rivera

The sixteen essays in Writing Off the Hyphen approach the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora from current theoretical positions, with provocative and insightful results. The authors analyze how the diasporic experience of Puerto Ricans...

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....

Costume and Identity in Highland Ecuador

By Ann Pollard Rowe

In most parts of highland Ecuador, people still identify themselves as indigenous and as belonging to a particular ethnic subgroup by the clothes and ornaments they wear. Although formerly the most distinctive costumes tended to...

The Floating Borderlands

Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature

By Lauro Flores

This book celebrates the emergence of a potent force on the American literary scene: the coming of age of contemporary Hispanic writers. The Americas Review—the pioneering journal of Hispanic literary arts, which has nurtured the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tradition and Transformation

Chicana/o Art from the 1970s through the 1990s

By Shifra Goldman. Edited by Charlene Villasenor Black. Preface by Chon A. Noriega

Pioneering art historian Shifra Goldman brought the study of Chicana/o and contemporary Latin American art to the notice of art history. She was determined to correct the stereotypes that had distorted the critical reception of...

VIVA Records, 1970-2000

Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists of Los Angeles

By Robb Hernandez

Robert Hernandez traces the history and assesses the impact of VIVA! Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists, a nonprofit artists' coalition founded in 1987 in the Silverlake community of Los Angeles. Their aim was to increase...