Metahistory and Dependency: The Dialectics of Our America. "Squeezed by the Banana Company": Dependency and Ideology in Macondo. Chicano Border Narratives as Cultural Critique -- Magical Narratives. The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina: Ntozake Shange's Sassa…
Joining the current debates in American literary history, José David Saldívar offers a challenging new perspective on what constitutes not only the canon in American literature, but also the notion of America itself. His aim is the articulation of a fresh, transgeographical conc…
"Joining the current debates in American literary history, José David Saldívar offers a challenging new perspective on what constitutes not only the canon in American literature, but also the notion of America itself. His aim is the articulation of a fresh, transgeographical con…
César Chávez and la causa
by La Botz, Dan
fromLibrary of American biography (New York, N.Y.)
César Chávez and la causa
by La Botz, Dan
fromLibrary of American biography (New York, N.Y.)
Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking, a disposition stretching from …
"Chicana/o literature is justly acclaimed for the ways it voices opposition to the dominant Anglo culture, speaking for communities ignored by mainstream American media. Yet the world depicted in these texts is not solely inhabited by Anglos and Chicanos; as this groundbreaking …
The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first. Materializing in Sacramento, California, in 1969 and established between 1970 and 1972, th…
"Creating Aztlán interrogates the important role of Aztlán in Chicano and Indigenous art and culture. Using the idea that lowriding is an Indigenous way of being, author Dylan A.T. Miner (Métis) discusses the multiple roles that Aztlán has played at various moments in time, enga…
"This single-volume book provides students, educators, and politicians with an update to the classic Carey McWilliams work North From Mexico. It provides up-to-date information on the Chicano experience and the emergent social dynamics in the United States as a result of Mexican…