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Transnational Testimonios
The Politics of Collective Knowledge Production
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...
ISBN: 9780295743912
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Bracero Railroaders
The Forgotten World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. West
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...
ISBN: 9780295744278
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POSADA
José Guadalupe Posada and the Early Mexican Penny Press
José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) was one of Mexico’s most influential political printmakers and illustrators. He produced an extensive body of imagery, from illustrations for children’s games...
ISBN: 9780986126314
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American Sabor
Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music / Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense
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...
ISBN: 9780295742625
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Barrio Harmonics
Essays on Chicano / Latino Music
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...
ISBN: 9780895511676
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The Aztlan Mexican Studies Reader, 1974-2016
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,...
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Living Together, Living Apart
Mixed Status Families and US Immigration Policy
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...
ISBN: 9780295995304
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The Chicana/o Education Pipeline
History, Institutional Critique, and Resistance
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...
ISBN: 9780895511669
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Writing Off the Hyphen
New Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora
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...
ISBN: 9780295988245
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Home — So Different, So Appealing
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...
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Costume and Identity in Highland Ecuador
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...
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The Floating Borderlands
Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature
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...
ISBN: 9780295977461
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Laura Aguilar
Show and Tell
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,...
ISBN: 9780895511683
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Altermundos
Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
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...
ISBN: 9780895511638
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The Chicano Studies Reader
An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2015, Third Edition
The Chicano Studies Reader, the best-selling anthology of writings from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded with essays drawn from the past five years of...
ISBN: 9780895511621
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Jose Montoya's Abundant Harvest
Works on Paper / Works on Life
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...
ISBN: 9780990762621
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Tradition and Transformation
Chicana/o Art from the 1970s through the 1990s
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...
ISBN: 9780895511553
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VIVA Records, 1970-2000
Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists of Los Angeles
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...
ISBN: 9780895511492
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The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings
The Strachwitz Frontera Collection is the largest repository of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican American vernacular recordings in existence. More than 40,000 recordings, all produced during...
ISBN: 9780895511485
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Oral History and Communities of Color
Oral history has been employed for decades by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists to collect data about lived experience. This volume explores how oral history, using video recordings and...
ISBN: 9780895511447
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