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East of East
The Making of Greater El Monte
Rutgers University Press
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.
East of East
The Making of Greater El Monte
Rutgers University Press
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.
Becoming Transnational Youth Workers
Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility
Rutgers University Press
Becoming Transnational Youth Workers contests mainstream notions of adolescence with its study of a cross-section of Mexican immigrant youths. Preceding the latest wave of Central American children and teenagers now fleeing violence in their homelands, the book examines a group of Mexican teenage migrants who immigrated to New York City in the early 2000s.
Parcels
Memories of Salvadoran Migration
Rutgers University Press
Anastario investigates the social memories of rural Salvadorans from an area that was heavily impacted by the Salvadoran Civil War, which fueled a mass exodus to the U.S. By working with travelers who exchanged parcels containing food, medicine, photographs and letters, Anastario tells the story behind parcels and illuminates their larger cultural and structural significance.
Forging Arizona
A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West
Rutgers University Press
In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. An important addition to extant scholarship on the U.S. Southwest, this book recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide are only as stable as the narratives that define them.
Constituting Central American–Americans
Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation
Rutgers University Press
Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured U.S. Central American identity.
Post-Borderlandia
Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
Rutgers University Press
Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are drawing on a rich tradition of challenging heteropatriarchal norms to offer new directions for Chicana feminist theory.
LatinAsian Cartographies
History, Writing, and the National Imaginary
Rutgers University Press
LatinAsian Cartographies 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.
In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills
Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles
Rutgers University Press
In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the multilayered process by which Mexican Americans moved out of the barrios and emerged as a majority population in the San Gabriel Valley, and the impact that movement had on collective racial and class identity.
From the Edge
Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print
Rutgers University Press
From the Edge reveals the tangled textual histories behind some of the most cherished works in the Chicana/o literary canon, tracing the contentious negotiations between authors, editors, and publishers that determined how these books appeared in print. In this groundbreaking examination of the politics of print culture, Allison Fagan demonstrates how the texts surrounding the authors’ words—from editorial prefaces to Spanish-language glossaries, from reviewers’ blurbs to readers’ marginalia—have crucially shaped the reception of Chicana/o literature.
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