This beautifully produced coffee-table book showcases more than 120 works of Chicana and Chicano art and provides a good representation of the art movement for general readers as well as …
In the mid-1960s, the charismatic Cesar Chavez led members of California’s La Causa movement in boycotting the grape harvest, and melon pickers in South Texas called a strike against growers, …
This is the new and fully updated edition of this classic work on the development of Chicano radicalism in America. “Youth, Identity, Power” is a unique exploration of the origins …
In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were …
Las Maras son identificaciones límite, atrincheradas, conformadas por fuertes codigos de lealtad y solidaridad, pero tambien de violencia y de autodestruccion. En esa permanente contradiccion se definen los significados que …
When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural …
First published in 1995, Postethnic America was widely hailed as a groundbreaking proposal for healing our nation’s ethnic divisions. David A. Hollinger, one of America’s foremost intellectual historians, argues for …
Praised as a splendid addition to the literature on the great wave of contemporary immigration from Mexico, The World of Mexican Migrants, by acclaimed author Judith Adler Hellman, provides a …
Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Américo Paredes (1915–1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. Paredes taught literature and anthropology at the …
Buy at Amazon.com Buy at Amazon.de Yudice, George. Theories of the Americas: A Reader in Inter-American Studies. Blackwell, 2005
