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Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States
Edited by John Tutino
University of Texas Press
Tracing economic, social, and cultural connections from colonial times until today, this book highlights the foundational contributions of Mexico and Mexicans to the United States—Hispanic capitalism, patriarchy, and mestizaje, or ethnic blending.
Reading Chican@ Like a Queer
The De-Mastery of Desire
University of Texas Press
The first full-length study to treat racialized sexuality as a necessary category of analysis for understanding any aspect of Mexican American culture.
Border Renaissance
The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature
University of Texas Press
A watershed revision in the history of Mexican American literature and culture, revealing the crucial role played by the Texas Centennial of 1936 in crystallizing a new, politicized ethnic identity.
raúlrsalinas and the Jail Machine
My Weapon Is My Pen
By Raúl Salinas; Edited by Louis G. Mendoza
University of Texas Press
A chronicle of one man's journey from "social criminal" to political activist and noted Chicano poet.
Brown Gumshoes
Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive study of the Chicana/o detective novel and its reflection on post-nationalist Chicana/o culture.
Narratives of Greater Mexico
Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders
University of Texas Press
In this pioneering study, Héctor Calderón looks at seven Chicana and Chicano writers whose narratives constitute what he terms an American Mexican literature.
Felix Longoria's Wake
Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism
By Patrick J. Carroll; Foreword by José E. Limón
University of Texas Press
How a controversy over a slain Mexican American soldier contributed to the rise of Mexican American activism.
Remembering the Alamo
Memory, Modernity, and the Master Symbol
University of Texas Press
How the Alamo's transformation into an American cultural icon helped to shape social, economic, and political relations between Anglo and Mexican Texans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
Barrio-Logos
Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture
University of Texas Press
How California Chicano/a writers, journalists, artists, activists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano p
The Illusion of Inclusion
The Untold Political Story of San Antonio
University of Texas Press
The first in-depth history of the Chicano community’s struggle for inclusion in the political life of San Antonio during the years 1951 to 1991, drawn from interviews with key participants as well as archival research.
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