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  • - The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora
    av JosA (c) M Alamillo
    547 - 1 769,-

  • av Rudy P. Guevarra
    443 - 1 611,-

  • - Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater
    av Israel Reyes
    374 - 1 565,-

  • - Cultural, Social and Political Processes in Transnational Perspective
    av Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez
    463,-

  • - The Making of Greater El Monte
     
    1 769,-

    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
     
    492,-

    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
    av Anita Huizar-Hernandez
    394 - 1 579,-

    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
    av Mike Anastario
    368 - 1 621,-

    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
    av Colin Gunckel
    433 - 1 621,-

  • - Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship
    av Catherine S. Ramirez
    501 - 1 769,-

  • - Explorations of Place and Belonging
    av Maya Socolovsky
    1 565,-

    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
    av Marci R. McMahon
    1 565,-

    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.

  • - Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print
    av Allison E. Fagan
    1 565,-

    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.

  • - Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego
    av Rutgers University Press, Jr. Guevarra & Rudy P.
    468 - 1 611,-

  • - Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation
    av Maritza E. Cardenas
    411,-

    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
    av Isabel Martinez
    396 - 1 621,-

    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
    av T. Jackie Cuevas
    1 638,-

    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
    av Maritza E. Cardenas
    1 611,-

    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
    av Jerry Gonzalez
    414 - 1 611,-

    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
    av Susan Thananopavarn
    410 - 1 621,-

    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
    av Amalia Pallares
    1 611,-

  • - Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico
    av Marie Theresa Hernandez
    439 - 1 565,-

  • - From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement
    av Bada Xochitl
    451 - 1 565,-

  • - Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption
    av Cecilia M. Rivas
    439 - 1 565,-

  • - Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence
    av Maria Acosta Cruz
    439,-

    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.

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