In the San Joaquin Valley Cotton Strike of 1933, frenzied cotton farmers murdered three strikers, intentionally starved at least nine infants, wounded dozens of people, and arrested more. While the story of this incident has been recounted from the perspective of both the farmer…
In the San Joaquin Valley Cotton Strike of 1933, frenzied cotton farmers murdered three strikers, intentionally starved at least nine infants, wounded dozens of people, and arrested more. While the story of this incident has been recounted from the perspective of both the farmer…
Examines how Chicana literature -- its narrative techniques, stylistic conventions, plot dilemmas and resolutions -- interrogate the multiple ways space and social relations constitute each other.
"A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a retirement community-these are the kinds of spatial transformations that conce…
"An insightful new history that showcases the contributions of Mexican American radical activists and the intersections between the early Chicano Movement and the Communist Party"--Provided by publisher.
"Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial theories, "In the Mean Time" argues that time, like space, is a socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the Southwest"--Provided by publisher.
