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  • - Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print
    af Allison E. Fagan
    419,95 - 1.647,95 kr.

    Reveals the tangled textual histories behind some of the most cherished works in the Chicana/o literary canon, tracing the negotiations between authors, editors, and publishers that determined how these books appeared in print. Allison Fagan demonstrates how the texts surrounding the authors' words have crucially shaped the reception of Chicana/o literature.

  • af Rudy P. Guevarra
    343,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater
    af Israel Reyes
    323,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Cultural, Social and Political Processes in Transnational Perspective
    af Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez
    465,95 kr.

  • - The Making of Greater El Monte
     
    1.398,95 kr.

    East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, and creative nonfiction, it provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte.

  • - The Making of Greater El Monte
     
    398,95 kr.

    East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, and creative nonfiction, it provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte.

  • - A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West
    af Anita Huizar-Hernandez
    323,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    An important addition to extant scholarship on the border U.S Southwest, Forging Arizona recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide nations, identities, and even true from false are only as stable as the narratives that define them.

  • - Memories of Salvadoran Migration
    af Mike Anastario
    323,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    In light of new proposals to control undocumented migrants in the United States, Parcels prioritizes rural Salvadoran remembering in an effort to combat the collective amnesia that supports the logic of these historically myopic strategies.

  • - Transnational Film culture in Los Angeles before World War II
    af Colin Gunckel
    378,95 - 1.388,95 kr.

  • - Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture
    af Desirée A. Martín
    469,95 - 1.648,95 kr.

  • - Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship
    af Catherine S. Ramirez
    398,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

  • - Explorations of Place and Belonging
    af Maya Socolovsky
    435,95 - 1.651,95 kr.

    Examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writers gained prominence in mainstream and academic circles.

  • - Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art
    af Marci R. McMahon
    438,95 - 1.648,95 kr.

    Explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through "negotiation" and "self-fashioning", Marci R. McMahon demonstrates how the sites of domesticity are used to engage the many political and recurring debates about race, gender, and immigration affecting Mexicanas and Chicanas.

  • - Film Dramas in the Borderlands
    af A. Gabriel Melendez
    459,95 - 1.651,95 kr.

    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 the silent era to today as filmmakers screen their fantasies of what they wished the Southwest Borderlands to be.

  • - The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature
    af Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue
    431,95 - 1.651,95 kr.

    Investigates why key Chicana/o writers, including Americo Paredes, Rolando Hinojosa, Oscar Acosta, Miguel Mendez, and Virginia Grise, from the 1950s to the present day, have persistently referenced Asian people and places in the course of articulating their political ideas.

  • - Desire and Difference in Chicana Latina Cultural Production
    af Marivel T. Danielson
    438,95 kr.

    Provides a discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the US to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater spaces. This work explores the multiple ways identity shapes and shades creative expression.

  • - The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora
    af JosA (c) M Alamillo
    353,95 - 1.393,95 kr.

  • - Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation
    af Maritza E. Cardenas
    353,95 kr.

    Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured US Central American identity and of the ways in which this identity challenges how we frame current discussions of Latina/o, American ethnic, and diasporic identities.

  • - Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility
    af Isabel Martinez
    343,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    Contests mainstream notions of adolescence with its study of a previously under-documented cross-section of Mexican immigrant youth. Isabel Martinez examines unaccompanied Mexican teenage minors who emigrated to New York in the early 2000s. These emigrant youth disrupt mainstream notions of what practices are appropriate at their ages.

  • - Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
    af T. Jackie Cuevas
    1.398,95 kr.

    Examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. This book considers how Chicanx butch lesbians and Chicana butch lesbians and Chicanx trans people as not only challenging heteropatriarchal norms, but also departing from mainstream conceptions of queerness and gender identification.

  • - Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation
    af Maritza E. Cardenas
    1.398,95 kr.

    Despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on Central American in the US. This volume is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured US Central American identity and of the ways in which this identity challenges how we frame current discussions of Latina/o, American ethnic, and diasporic identities.

  • - Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles
    af Jerry Gonzalez
    353,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded the employment and living opportunities for millions of Angelinos into new suburbs. In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the struggle for inclusion into this exclusive world and the impact that movement had on collective racial and class identity.

  • - History, Writing, and the National Imaginary
    af Susan Thananopavarn
    353,95 - 1.398,95 kr.

    Examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first century dominant discourses on race. Susan Thananopavarn contends that the Asian American and Latina/o presence in the United States is crucial to understanding how national identity has been constructed.

  • - Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship
    af Amalia Pallares
    533,95 - 1.647,95 kr.

  • - Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico
    af Marie Theresa Hernandez
    435,95 - 1.655,95 kr.

  • - From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement
    af Bada Xochitl
    452,95 - 1.652,95 kr.

  • - Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption
    af Cecilia M. Rivas
    433,95 - 1.651,95 kr.

  • - Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence
    af Maria Acosta Cruz
    430,95 kr.

    Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In this provocative new book, Maria Acosta Cruz investigates the roots and effects of this profound disconnect between cultural fantasy and political reality.

  • - Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego
    af Rutgers University Press, Jr. Guevarra & Rudy P.
    368,95 - 1.388,95 kr.