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"There Are No Hispanic Stars!"
Collected Writings of a Latino Film Critic in Hollywood, 1921–1939
In the 1920s and 1930s a uniquely Mexican American entertainment culture flourished across the southwestern United States. Spanish-language newspapers offered theater listings, coverage of favorite performers, cultural criticism, and serialized novels that thematized entertainment culture....
ISBN: 9780895512048
more detailsChristina Fernandez
Multiple Exposures
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
more detailsFeminista Frequencies
Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley
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
more detailsThe Artist as Eyewitness
Antonio Bernal Papers, 1884-2019
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
more detailsMaking Livable Worlds
Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice
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
more detailsThe $16 Taco
Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification
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
more detailsLatinx Photography in the United States
A Visual History
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
more detailsAutobiography without Apology
The Personal Essay in Chicanx and Latinx Studies
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
more detailsThe Chicano Studies Reader
An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019
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
more detailsLa Raza
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
more detailsBarrio 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 issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics,...
ISBN: 9780895511676
more detailsTransnational 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 and South America, Patricia DeRocher examines testimonios from...
ISBN: 9780295743912
more detailsBracero 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 workers across the border...
ISBN: 9780295744278
more detailsThe 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, 1974–2016 presents thirteen previously published essays together with...
ISBN: 9780895511690
more detailsThe 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 through postsecondary programs and postgraduate experiences. The essays, which appeared in...
ISBN: 9780895511669
more detailsHome — 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 home has been...
ISBN: 9780895511645
more detailsAmerican 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 musical contributions...
ISBN: 9780295742625
more detailsAltermundos
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 that include colonialism and modernity, immigration and globalization, race and...
ISBN: 9780895511638
more detailsJose 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 Joaquin Valley where his family arrived from their...
ISBN: 9780990762621
more detailsLiving 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 issue: it’s a deeply personal one....
ISBN: 9780295995304
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