Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Julius Chambers A Life in the Legal Struggle for
Book SynopsisBorn in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge as the nation’s leading African American civil rights attorney. This biography connects the details of Chambers’s life to the wider struggle to secure racial equality through the development of modern civil rights law.
£30.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The End of Public Execution Race Religion Punishment in the American South
Book SynopsisBefore 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating that change within our understandings of lynching and competing visions of justice and religion.
£26.36
The University of North Carolina Press Reading Territory
Book SynopsisTheorizes the logics of federalism and states' rights in the production of US empire, revealing how they were used to imagine states into existence while clashing with relational forms of territoriality asserted by Indigenous and Black people.
£69.70
The University of North Carolina Press Reading Territory
Book SynopsisTheorizes the logics of federalism and states' rights in the production of US empire, revealing how they were used to imagine states into existence while clashing with relational forms of territoriality asserted by Indigenous and Black people.
£25.16
The University of North Carolina Press An Army Afire
Book SynopsisAcclaimed military historian Beth Bailey shows how the US Army experienced, defined, and tried to solve racism and racial tension (in its own words, the problem of race') in the Vietnam War era.Trade ReviewA detailed examination of the U.S. Army's efforts to address "the problem of race" in the late 1960s and early '70s . . . . [Bailey's] in-depth reporting on the Army's attempts to "assess and address Black soldiers' complaints" sheds light on what was accomplished, as well as how far there is left to go. It's a valuable study of the challenges to institutional reform."—Publishers Weekly Bailey's account of the way the army responded to the growing crisis is original and informative."—Eric Foner, London Review of Books Bailey has done a great service by exploring the military side of the "racial crisis" of the 1960s and '70s, a topic that has been underexplored by historians . . . . insightful."—Randal Maurice Jelks, Los Angeles Review of Books
£26.06
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Ambivalent Affinities A Political History of
Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of comparisons between Black and LGBT political constituencies in the modern civil rights movement and white supremacist backlash.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Multiracial Promise Harold Washingtons
Book SynopsisIn April 1983, a dynamic, multiracial political coalition did the unthinkable, electing Harold Washington as the first Black mayor of Chicago. Drawing on a rich array of archives and oral history interviews, Gordon Mantler offers a bold reexamination of the Harold Washington movement and moment.
£69.70
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Lawyer Jailer Ally Foe Complicity and Conscience
Book SynopsisIn re-creating the daily lives of War Relocation Authority attorneys, Eric Muller adds colour, nuance, and pathos to the historical record by creating narrative and dialogue, illustrating how the lawyers' backgrounds, temperaments, circumstances, and personalities shaped their engagements with the unjust system they helped operate.Trade ReviewVivid. . . . For readers interested in human rights, concentration camps, or the legal history of this period, this is an important work."—Library Journal In a powerful yet easily read narrative, Muller documents with precision the tension these lawyers experienced attempting to do good while working in a fundamentally unjust system. Based on meticulous research . . . . a thought-provoking study of the role of the legal profession in society and the power of individual responsibility, even with its imperfections."—American Bar Association [A] brilliant book . . . . a masterpiece . . . . an important yet understudied topic.—Art Hansen, Nichi Bei News
£22.46
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Ambivalent Affinities A Political History of
Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of comparisons between Black and LGBT political constituencies in the modern civil rights movement and white supremacist backlash.
£23.96
The University of North Carolina Press Race Removal and the Right to Remain Migration
Book SynopsisReorienting the history of US expansion around Native American and African American histories, Samantha Seeley provides a much-needed reconsideration of early nation building.
£34.42
The University of North Carolina Press I Cannot Write My Life
Book SynopsisOmar ibn Said (1770-1863) was a Muslim scholar from West Africa who spent more than fifty years enslaved in the North Carolina household of James Owen, brother of Governor John Owen. Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst here weave fresh and accurate translations of Omar's eighteen surviving writings.Trade ReviewDrawing on scrupulous close readings of Said's work, Lo and Ernst make a worthy contribution to the scholarship on slavery in America and testify to the importance of evidence left behind by enslaved people themselves. This edifies."—Publishers Weekly
£69.70
The University of North Carolina Press I Cannot Write My Life
Book SynopsisOmar ibn Said (1770-1863) was a Muslim scholar from West Africa who spent more than fifty years enslaved in the North Carolina household of James Owen, brother of Governor John Owen. Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst here weave fresh and accurate translations of Omar's eighteen surviving writings.Trade ReviewDrawing on scrupulous close readings of Said's work, Lo and Ernst make a worthy contribution to the scholarship on slavery in America and testify to the importance of evidence left behind by enslaved people themselves. This edifies."—Publishers Weekly
£18.86
The University of North Carolina Press Urban Specters
Book SynopsisFocusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents of Cincinnati, Sarah Mayorga argues that residents' interpretations of their circumstances, what she calls urban specters, are often partial recognitions of the exploitation and dehumanization produced by racial capitalism.Trade ReviewA fascinating examination of both race relations and class dynamics in a changing city. [Mayorga's] book makes a significant contribution to the study of both critical racial/ethnic studies and urban sociology, and perhaps more importantly to the theoretical underpinnings of these two traditions."—Ethnic and Racial Studies Urban Specters intimately compares and contrasts two local neighborhoods — Riverside and Carthage — and their residents while exploring the topic of racial capitalism. . . . Mayorga uncovers everyday manifestations of racial capitalism through the eyes of Cincinnati residents."—Cincinnati CityBeat An in-depth analysis of material life within two neighborhoods in Cincinnati. . . . Urban Specters provides hope in interpersonal acts of resilience and a growing self-awareness made possible by public scholarship that looks at a different world."—The Metropole
£69.70
The University of North Carolina Press Urban Specters
Book SynopsisFocusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents of Cincinnati, Sarah Mayorga argues that residents' interpretations of their circumstances, what she calls urban specters, are often partial recognitions of the exploitation and dehumanization produced by racial capitalism.Trade ReviewA fascinating examination of both race relations and class dynamics in a changing city. [Mayorga's] book makes a significant contribution to the study of both critical racial/ethnic studies and urban sociology, and perhaps more importantly to the theoretical underpinnings of these two traditions."—Ethnic and Racial Studies Urban Specters intimately compares and contrasts two local neighborhoods — Riverside and Carthage — and their residents while exploring the topic of racial capitalism. . . . Mayorga uncovers everyday manifestations of racial capitalism through the eyes of Cincinnati residents."—Cincinnati CityBeat An in-depth analysis of material life within two neighborhoods in Cincinnati. . . . Urban Specters provides hope in interpersonal acts of resilience and a growing self-awareness made possible by public scholarship that looks at a different world."—The Metropole
£21.56
The University of North Carolina Press The AfroLatino Memoir
Book SynopsisDespite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts movement.
£69.70
The University of North Carolina Press The AfroLatino Memoir
Book SynopsisDespite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts movement.
£999.99
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Beyond the Kitchen Table Black Women and Global
Book SynopsisLooking deeply into Black women’s roles - economically, environmentally, and socially - in food and agriculture systems in the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States, the contributors to this volume address the ways Black women, both now and in the past, have used food as a part of community building and sustenance.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Beyond the Kitchen Table Black Women and Global
Book SynopsisLooking deeply into Black women’s roles - economically, environmentally, and socially - in food and agriculture systems in the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States, the contributors to this volume address the ways Black women, both now and in the past, have used food as a part of community building and sustenance.
£999.99
The University of North Carolina Press Magic City
Book SynopsisTells the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of a distinctive and influential jazz heritage. In a telling replete with iconic artists, and unheralded masters, Burgin Mathews reveals how Birmingham was the training ground for luminaries and a long list of sidemen, soloists, and arrangers.Trade ReviewFascinating and rewarding."—Jazz Journal
£22.46
The University of North Carolina Press Encyclop233die noire The Making of Moreau de
Book SynopsisSara Johnson’s arresting investigation of race and knowledge in the revolutionary Atlantic surrounds Mederic Louis Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery with the African-descended people he worked so hard to erase, immersing him in a vibrant community of language innovators, forgers of kinship networks, and world travellers.
£35.96
The University of North Carolina Press Arise Africa Roar China
Book SynopsisExplores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War - journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen.Trade ReviewA History Today 2022 Book of the Year! A Book Authority 2022 Best New African American History Book and Best Politics Ebook"This tour-de-force of research connects the scholarship on Black internationalism, Chinese American studies, modern Chinese popular culture and politics, Black Diasporas, and transnational studies. . . . Arise, Africa! Roar, China! will surely stimulate more research on Sino-African diaspora history and the transnationality of modern Chinese history in the future."—Chinese Historical Review"Ambitious in its scope and inspiring in its subject material. Gao's provocative book demonstrates the importance of transpacific and translingual approaches in modern Chinese and African American history. It offers a new perspective on Sino-American relations through five compelling case studies that have rarely been examined side-by-side. . . . A pleasure to read and a layered work of scholarship that invites further rereading, revisiting, and reflection."—Modern Chinese Literature & Culture"Gao is by any measure a talented and engaging writer who brings her fascinating subjects vividly to life. . . . Gao tells a good story, actually five, and tells them very well. That the stories and protagonists are all linked yields a book is far more than the sum of its parts."—Asian Review of Books"A most impressive display of transnational research which furthers the important field of African American internationalism."—Peace & Change"Profoundly impressed . . . and dazzled by the creative approach [Gao] took to documenting and contextualizing the many different kinds of connections that existed between W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Liu Liangmo, and Sylvia Silan Chen. . . . reveal[s] the potential of transnational history to tell enormous stories in exciting and revelatory ways. . . . truly excellent scholarship."—Sheyda Jahanbani, Chair of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize Committee at SHAFR"Gao's innovative research enriches the current English-language scholarship on Sino-African American interactions, advancing our understanding of Sino-U.S. relations and Black internationalism from a once-overlooked aspect of modern Chinese history."—Chinese Historical Review
£22.46
University of Texas Press BlackBrown Solidarity
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening study of the new coalitions between Latinos and African Americans emerging throughout the Gulf South, where previously divided ethnicities are forging an unprecedented challenge to white hegemony.Trade ReviewThe contemporary “postracial” United States Márquez explores in Black-Brown Solidarity doesn’t appear to crave critique at all, no matter how much progress might be gained from it. Nevertheless, Márquez provides a timely critique in this thorough investigation of histories of violent oppression, internalized colonization, multiracial coalitions and activism, and constructed identities. * Aztlan *This book enters the annals of important scholarship, making significant contributions to the literature. * Choice *Black-Brown Solidarity provokes the reader to rethink traditional perspectives about race, ethnicity, class, gender and justice as they relate to research, theory and political activism. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *An imaginative, challenging, and intellectually stimulating contribution to the subjects of race, class, cultural hybridity, activism, systematic racial oppression, and the demographic and cultural future of America—all in Baytown, Texas. * East Texas Historical Journal *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Hybrid Subjectivities 1. Foundational Blackness and the Racial State of Expendability 2. Black Gold and Brown Bodies: Early Baytown 3. Subjectivities, Chopped and Screwed: Neoliberalism and Its Aftermath 4. Rodney King en Español: Baytown’s Activist Awakening Conclusion: Moral Witnesses and Mother 'Hoods Notes Bibliography Index
£20.89
University of Texas Press Continental Shifts
Book SynopsisA timely, hemispheric examination of the post-NAFTA shift in US discourse surrounding Latinos, which has created dehumanizing representations that equate Latinos with animals and criminals, and of the ways in which Latino cultural producers contest theseTrade Review"Riofrio engages wide swaths of popular culture and literary criticism, using them as a prism for understanding contemporary historical events and public policy." * Choice *"...critically ambitious, highly readable, and furiously passionate. The book indeed provides an exciting contribution to Inter-American studies, Latino Studies, literary and cultural studies, but truly triumphs in the way it models ethically grounded and publicly directed scholarly work." * Symploke *"Both ambitious and comprehensive in scope, this book sheds new light on the discursive racism found in twenty-first-century media forms that has prepared the way for recent anti-immigrant movements…Continental Shifts presents a timely critique of the post-9/11 criminalization of Latinx people. It is a compelling study of how discursive racism and challenging racism affects the experience of being Latinx in the US, as well as Latin American perceptions of that experience." * Journal of American Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Hemispheric Latinidades: Migrating Bodies and the Blurred Borders of Latino Identities 2. Dirty Politics of Representation: Dehumanizing Discourse, Latinidad, and the Struggle for Self-Ascribed Ethnic Identity 3. Spectacles of Incarceration: Biopolitics, Public Shaming, and the Pornography of Prisons 4. Latinos in a Post-9/11 Moment: “American” Identity and the Public Latino Body Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press The Magic Key
Book SynopsisThis much-needed volume provides a comprehensive empirical study of the school experiences of Mexican Americans and those who help them succeed.Table of Contents Foreword by Patricia Gándara A Personal Narrative by Sally Alonzo Bell, PhD Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part I: Setting the Context 1. Locked Doors; Closed Opportunities: Who Holds the Magic Key? (Ruth Enid Zambrana and Sylvia Hurtado) 2. History's Prism in Education: A Spectrum of Legacies across Centuries of Mexican American Agency; Experience and Activism 1600s–2000s (Victoria-María MacDonald and Jason Rivera) 3. Trend Analyses from 1971 to 2012 on Mexican American/Chicano Freshmen: Are We Making Progress? (Sylvia Hurtado) Part II: Conceptual Understandings 4. An Intersectional Lens: Theorizing an Educational Paradigm of Success (Ruth Enid Zambrana and Sylvia Hurtado) 5. Parental Educational and Gender Expectations: Pushing the Educational Trajectory (Ruth Enid Zambrana and Rebeca Burciaga) 6. Examining the Influence of K–12 School Experiences on the Higher Education Pathway (Ruth Enid Zambrana, Anthony De Jesús, and Brianne A. Dávila) Part III: Contemporary College Experiences 7. The Ivory Tower Is Still White: Chicana/o-Latina/o College Students' Views on Racism, Ethnic Organizations, and Campus Racial Segregation (Nolan L. Cabrera and Sylvia Hurtado) 8. Campus Climate, Intersecting Identities, and Institutional Support among Mexican American College Students (Adriana Ruiz Alvarado and Sylvia Hurtado) Part IV: Implications for Educational Policy and Future Practices in P–16 Pathways and Beyond 9. Mexican American Males' Pathways to Higher Education: Awareness to Achievement (Luis Ponjuan and Victor B. Sáenz) 10. The Role of Educational Policy in Mexican American College Transition and Completion (Frances Contreras) Notes Bibliography Contributing Authors Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press The Making of Arab Americans
Book SynopsisUsing previously untapped archives to reclaim a forgotten history, this groundbreaking study traces Arab American advocacy to the early twentieth century, when mass immigration as a result of Arab grievances with Ottoman Turks fostered a unified Arab AmerTable of Contents Acknowledgments Note on Arabic Terms and Names Introduction 1. Arab Populations under Ottoman Rule: A Background 2. The Syrian Nationalism of the Mahjar Press 3. Soldiers for Syria before World War I: The Free Syria Society 4. The Syria Idea and the New Syria Party 5. The Mandate Years and the Diaspora: The Arab National League and a Historical Context for Arab American Narrative 6. The Arab National League and the Emergence of Arab American Identity 7. The Institute of Arab American Affairs: Arab Americans and the New World Order Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£26.99
University of Texas Press Mexican Americans and the Question of Race
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking and timely study explores how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants develop their racial ideologies and identifications and how they choose to present them to others.Trade ReviewDowling’s text is a much needed addition to and intervention in the conversation of Latino racial identification that should be required reading for Sociology of Race and Latino Studies courses. * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Journal *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Question of Race Chapter 2. “I’m white ‘cause I’m an American, right?”: The Meanings of Whiteness for Mexican Americans Chapter 3. “We were never white”: Mexican Americans Identifying Outside the Bounds of Whiteness Chapter 4. “In Mexico I was . . .”: Translating Racial Identities Across the Border Chapter 5. “That’s what we call ourselves here”: Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigrants Negotiating Racial Labeling in Daily Life Chapter 6. Re-envisioning Our Understanding of Latino Racial Identity Appendix: Notes on Methodology Notes References Index
£15.19
University of Texas Press Cuban Underground Hip Hop
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, Caribbean Studies Association, 2017In the wake of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, a key state ideology developed: racism was a systemic cultural issue that ceased to exist after the Revolution, and any racism that did persist was a result of contained cases of individual prejudice perpetuated by US influence. Even after the state officially pronounced the end of racism within its borders, social inequalities tied to racism, sexism, and homophobia endured, and, during the economic liberalization of the 1990s, widespread economic disparities began to reemerge.Cuban Underground Hip Hop focuses on a group of self-described antiracist, revolutionary youth who initiated a social movement (1996–2006) to educate and fight against these inequalities through the use of arts-based political activism intended to spur debate and enact social change. Their “revolution” was manifest in altering individTrade ReviewThis study is a must for any scholar on race, feminism, social movements, music, and, of course, Cuba. * Choice *Cuban Underground Hip Hop delivers an intimate history of hip hop in Cuba between 1996 and 2006…[It] stands out because of its focus on the intersectionality of race and gender. * New West Indian Guide *Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Historicizing Race, Cultural Politics, and Critical Music Cultures in Cuba 3. La Revolución dentro de la Revolución/The Revolution within the Revolution: Hip Hop, Cuba, and Afro-Descendant Challenges to Coloniality 4. Whiteness, Mulat@ness, Blackness: Racial Identities and Politics within the Cuban Underground Hip Hop Movement 5. “Never Has Anyone Spoken to You Like This”: Examining the Lexicon of Cuban Underground Hip Hop Artivist Discourses 6. “I’m a Feminist, But I Don’t Hate Men”: Emergent Black Feminist Discourses and Identity Politics within the Cuban Underground Hip Hop Movement 7. Kruda Knowledge, Kruda Discourse: Las Krudas CUBENSI, Transnational Black Feminism, and the Queer of Color Critique 8. Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press The Color of Love
Book SynopsisWinner, Section on the Sociology of Emotions Outstanding Recent Contribution (Book) Award, American Sociological Association, 2016 Charles Horton Cooley Award for Recent Book, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2017 Best Publication Award, Section on Body and Embodiment, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2018The Color Of Love reveals the power of racial hierarchies to infiltrate our most intimate relationships. Delving far deeper than previous sociologists have into the black Brazilian experience, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman examines the relationship between racialization and the emotional life of a family. Based on interviews and a sixteen-month ethnography of ten working-class Brazilian families, this provocative work sheds light on how families simultaneously resist and reproduce racial hierarchies. Examining race and gender, Hordge-Freeman illustrates the privileges of whiteness by revealing how those with “blacker” feTrade Review"The Color of Love is an insightful treatment of the social psychology of race and the family, ostensibly in Brazil but with observations that have more general applicability." * Social Forces *"Certainly a page turner, Hordge-Freeman makes various scholarly contributions, the biggest being her exploration of how phenotype-based affection can reproduce racial inequality in racialized societies, which hardly any studies of race in the United States and Brazil have done. . . . This book should be read by anyone with an interest in the African Diaspora, race and racism in Brazil, and family socialization practices." * Humanity & Society *"...an important contribution to the growing academic literature on race and color in Brazil. The Color of Love, firmly rooted in the discipline of sociology, is interdisciplinary in the best possible way." * American Journal of Sociology *"The Color of Love provides a necessary narrative that must be included in family research dis-course...I urge family researchers to read [it] to help them in understanding the family unit as a complex societal agent that is capable of resisting and reproducing dominant ideologies and also love." * Journal of Family Theory and Review *"[Hodge-Freeman's] work with an understudied group allows her to add a significant contribution to the field of race. . . . The Color of Love is an excellent ethnographic project." * Symbolic Interaction *"This book makes a great contribution to understanding racial relations in Brazil by considering family and close neighbor relationships, the socialization process, and negotiations of gendered and racialized bodies, from a perspective that dialogues with theories of social stratification, feminist theory while triangulating race, class, and gender." * Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População *"This book undoubtedly offers both theoretical and empirical gems to the sociology of race and inequality as well as to the study of the African diaspora in Latin America and beyond." * Contemporary Sociology *"The ethnographic data on families show that ideas about racial hierarchy operate across a wide range of phenotypes and self-identifications. Hordge-Freeman shows this exceptionally well for Brazil . . . Hordge-Freeman's excellent ethnography interrogates families and bodies as sites of race-making in Brazil." * Latin American Research Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. The Face of a Slave Part I. Socialization and Stigma Chapter 1. What's Love Got to Do with It? Racial Stigma and Embodied Capital Chapter 2. Black Bodies, White Casts: Racializing and Gendering Bodies Chapter 3. Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Affective Capital, Stigma, and Racialization Part II. Racial Socialization and Negotiations in Public Culture Chapter 4. Racial Fluency: Reading between and beyond the Color Lines Chapter 5. Mind Your Blackness: Embodied Capital and Spatial Mobility Chapter 6. Antiracism in Transgressive Families Conclusion. The Ties That Bind Appendix A: Research Methods and Positionality Appendix B: Major Interview Topics Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Entre Guadalupe y Malinche
Book SynopsisEntre Guadalupe y Malinche is the first-ever collection of Tejana literary and artistic production, gathering the writings of more than fifty authors and the artwork of eight artists.Trade Review...the editors have brought together a truly impressive array of Tejana female artists, giving equal time to established names and rising stars. * Santa Fe New Mexican *A volume meriting serious scholarly consideration…As homogeneity increases through processes such as globalization, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche is a reminder of the relevance of regional particularism and how writers and artists respond to notions of place and land through constructions of imagination, memory, and community. * Western American Literature *Entre Guadalupe y Malinche is a vibrant collection…The texts collectively imagine, create, and rewrite Tejana stories into the Texas-Mexican landscape but contest any single notion of a unified experience, be it cultural, gender, or geographical…Entre Guadalupe y Malinche takes the reader on personal journeys of discovery, family, love, and healing all while rooted in the larger paradigm of the decolonial imaginary. * Journal of American Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Women of the Texas-Mexican Earth, by Inés Hernández-Ávila I. Enterrando ombligos/Burying the Umbilical Cord: Tejanas in a Texas Land Inés Hernández-Ávila Introduction Gloria Anzaldúa Border arte: Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera Alicia Gaspar de Alba To Your Shadow Beast: In Memoriam Margo Tamez The Equation of a Circle Susan M. Guerra Holiday Juanita A. Luna Lawhn Man without a Pen Oralia Garza de Cortés Hija del mesquite Inés Hernández-Ávila That’s Tejana María Limón Santiago Raquel Valle-Sentíes Growing Up in Laredo Evangelina Vigil harbor Norma Elia Cantú South Texas in July, 2014 Deborah Paredez Alzheimer’s Aubade Enedina Cásarez Vásquez ¿Y qué nos pasó, Amá? Gloria Amescua Fall into the Fig Susana Rentería Almanza Reflections of la Madre Tierra María Silva Chicana Celeste Guzmán Mendoza Repair Teresa Palomo Acosta My mother’s thimble Laura M. López Growing Up a Texas-Mexican Woman Anel Flores Sinvergüenza on the Banks of the Water Emmy Pérez El Paso~El Valle Raquel Valle-Sentíes River of Lost Dreams Patrisia Gonzales The Pyramid I Call Home Rosemary Catacalos Red Dirt, Atascosa County, Texas Paulita Huerta Garza Amorosamente les saludo Pat Mora A River of Women II. Dolores profundos y la gracia de la vida/Deep Hurts and the Grace of Life Inés Hernández-Ávila Introduction Emma Pérez Between Manifest Destiny and Women’s Rights: Decolonizing Chicana History Yolanda Chávez Leyva “If a woman stands at the door you can’t go in”: Jovita’s Story, April 1914 Beva Sanchez-Padilla The Ballad of Emma Tenayuca Norma Elia Cantú Para Manuela Solis Sager Mary Guerrero Milligan La mentira, or How I Got Through Texas History Teresa Palomo Acosta Casas grandes Aurora Orozco No me quites mi español (and translation) Idioma (and translation) Laura Parra Codina My Mother Used to Read to Me María Herrera-Sobek Summertime Blues Josephine Cásarez Brown Trenzas Are for Mensas D. Letticia Galindo Memories of West Texas Domino Renee Pérez Anticipating a New Life María Herrera-Sobek The Immigrant’s Lament Gloria Amescua Not the Last Pretender Laura Parra Codina Aquí en San Anto/Here in San Anto (author’s translation) Carmen Tafolla Something Severed Beatriz de la Garza Amber Waves of Grain Rosie Castro San Antonio sin Marías Tammy Melody Gómez It Is Possible Mary Margaret Navar El conquistador Angela Valenzuela The Power of Difference Edith Villalobos Silvas I Wanted Mexican but I Got H.E.B. Instead Mary Sue Galindo La Elliott (1935–1970) Rosie Castro Brown Mother Full of Stars Mia K. Stageberg Daughters of Burning Sun III. Arte y semblanza: Tejana Artivists Norma Elia Cantú Introduction Santa Barraza Nora Chapa Mendoza Celeste De Luna Carmen Lomas Garza Verónica Ortegón María Teresa García Pedroche Kathy Vargas Terry Ybañez IV. All Our Relations: Our Connections to Land, Family, Friends Norma Elia Cantú Introduction Sonia Saldívar-Hull (Re)Forming A Chicana Feminist: Transfrontera Memorias Olivia Castellano Tía ire’ne lara silva en trozos/in pieces Inés Hernández-Ávila Skyway Dreams Sylvia Herrera Ábreme la puerta Emmy Pérez We, the Obsessed María Herrera-Sobek Amorcito corazón Liliana Valenzuela A Chilanga Tejana Writer: Notes on the Geography of Shame Aída Hurtado She/Woman/Man B. J. Manriquez Segura An Understanding Edith Villalobos Silvas No More Trenzas Rosie Castro Role Model Enedina Cásarez Vásquez Bad Hair Day Evangelina Vigil nocturne: cuando el destino Dorotea Reyna Moustache Deborah Paredez At the VA Telemetry Ward D. Letticia Galindo Longing for Tejas Blues Juanita Luna Lawhn My Mother’s Cuartito Celeste Guzmán Mendoza Dinner with Dad Aída Hurtado Mothering I Rose Treviño Sueños argentinos Argentine Dreams (author’s translation) Tammy Melody Gómez Woman and Pain María Eugenia Guerra The Garden Teresa Palomo Acosta Forgiving Stephen F. Austin and the old three hundred Paulita Huerta Garza Viva la libertad: Mensaje a las mujeres Long Live Liberty: A Message to Women (translation by Norma E. Cantú) Pat Mora Let Us Hold Hands Norma Elia Cantú Tierra incógnita Rosa-Linda Fregoso Ghosts of a Mexican Past (excerpt) Alicia Gaspar de Alba Asking for Pears: A Limpia Not Just a Love Poem V. (Auto)compromisos y comunidad: Gifts of Powerful, Conscious Loving Inés Hernández-Ávila Introduction Margo Tamez La Dormilona Dreamt of Home from the Shore of Erie Liliana Valenzuela Hoy detengo el curso de los ríos Today I Stop the River in Its Tracks (Translation by Fred Fornoff) Mary Sue Galindo Ya lo verás Rosie Castro Chicanas Never Feared María Silva Con todo respeto para la raza más apreciada, los chicanos (and translation) Tammy Melody Gómez In Finite F Light Aída Hurtado Body I D. Letticia Galindo Tejana Tongues/Lenguas tejanas Norma Elia Cantú Canto a la tierra Dorotea Reyna Reina de copas Mary Sue Galindo In Memory of My Departed Grandmother: Juanita Pérez Mejía 08/25/03–03/11/93 Pat Mora Ofrenda for Lobo Bárbara Renaud González Feliz Navidad, Daddy Evangelina Vigil one dream of so many Laura Parra Codina Sóplame la vida Mary Margaret Navar Plegaria milenaria Millennial Prayer (translation) ire’ne lara silva one-sided conversations with my mother Sylvia Ledesma Luchando por libertad Rosemary Catacalos Picture Postcard from a Painter B. J. Manriquez Segura An Omen Raquel Valle-Sentíes Cuando tú me besas When You Kiss Me (poet’s translation) Susan Guerra My Woman and Her Bird Paulita Huerta Garza Trozos de amor a la vida Pieces of Love to Life Teresa Palomo Acosta Because faith has called me out Evangelina Vigil el silencio Carmen Tafolla Healing a Culture, AD 2000 Epilogue: ¡Adelante y con ganas!, by Norma Elia Cantú Notes Works Cited Further Reading Contributors
£25.19
University of Texas Press The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air
Book SynopsisEmploying a creative mix of real and fictive events, objects, and people that subverts assumptions about the archiving and display of historical artifacts, this innovative book both documents and evokes an arts collective that played a significant role in the Chicano movement.Trade ReviewThe Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force deftly transforms the Sacramento-based, Chicanx art collective’s history into an assemblage of artworks, essays, and documents based on a decade’s worth of material gleaned from interviewing, befriending, and working with its members...Sauer’s engagingly unique book is a welcome alternative to traditional narratives and academic archives. In it, she skillfully takes on the challenge of wrangling a history largely gleaned from conversations. While Sauer admits that the texts should not be 'looked upon as sources of historical truth,' her book nevertheless succeeds in channeling the RCAF’s spirit and voice while also helping to reclaim their role in both California and Chicanx history. * US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal *
£29.45
University of Texas Press Captivity Beyond Prisons
Book SynopsisEscobar examines the criminalization of Latina (im)migrants, delving into questions of reproduction, technologies of power, and social justice in a prison system that consistently devalues the lives of Latinas.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. Shifting the Conversation from (Im)migrant Rights to Abolition Chapter 1. Understanding the Roots of Latina (Im)migrants' Captivity Chapter 2. Reinforcing Gendered Racial Boundaries: Unintended Consequences of (Im)migrant Rights Discourse Chapter 3. Violent Formations: Criminalizing and Disciplining (Im)migrant Women Chapter 4. Domesticating (Im)migration: Coordinating State Violence beyond the Nation-State Chapter 5. Emancipation Is Not Freedom: A Reflection and Critique of Advocacy Abolition Conclusion. Envisioning and Performing Freedom Notes Bibliography Index
£20.89
University of Texas Press A Promising Problem
Book SynopsisIn this collection of innovative, thought-provoking essays, established and emerging scholars consider the sea changes taking place within Chicana/o scholarship, the shifting racial and political boundaries of Chicana/o communities, and new perspectives oTrade Review"[A Promising Problem's] essays offer fresh insights that make this edited collection a worthwhile read." * Pacific Historical Review *"What is fresh about these essays is their insistence that a multitude of actors, both within and outside of Latina/o communities, has shaped Chicana/o history and identity...A Promising Problem both highlights new work and raises...important questions for continued debate." * Western Historical Quarterly *"The essays assembled [in A Promising Problem] represent a variety of topics and subfields, though Blanton is careful to note that the volume is far from exhaustive or representative of all Chicana/o history. Nonetheless, the collection captures well the field's 'promising problem.'" * Journal of Southern History *"While the essays [in A Promising Problem] represent the broad spectrum of Mexican American history, all authors speak to each other by referencing each other's work and pointing out common findings across chapters. This technique makes for a much more integrated and tightly-woven anthology than is common among such books, indicating that much thought went into crafting the study." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One. Looking In while Stepping Out: Growth, Reassessment, and the Promising Problem of the New Chicana/o History (Carlos Kevin Blanton) Chapter Two. The Accidental Historian; or, How I Found My Groove in Legal History (Michael A. Olivas) Chapter Three. Moving beyond Aztlán: Disrupting Nationalism and Geographic Essentialism in Chicano/a History (Lilia Fernández) Chapter Four. Chicana/o History as Southern History: Race, Place, and the US South (Perla M. Guerrero) Chapter Five. Sacred Spaces: Race, Resistance, and the Politics of Chicana/o and Latina/o Religious History (Felipe Hinojosa) Chapter Six. Chicanas in the US-Mexican Borderlands: Transborder Conversations of Feminism and Anarchism, 1905–1938 (Sonia Hernández) Chapter Seven. Eastside Imaginaries: Toward a Relational and Transnational Chicana/o Cultural History (Luis Alvarez) Select Bibliography of Recent Publications in Chicana/o History Contributors Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Trying to Get Over
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking text focuses on the post-blaxploitation era of American filmmaking and illuminates contributions of directors who, although largely unrecognized, have shaped popular culture over the past quarter century.Trade ReviewTrying to Get Over is required reading for those interested in film at the intersection of racial politics, production histories, and media industries...[Corson] reminds us of the rich and dynamic history of African Americans in Hollywood persistently making films that are now considered cult classics. * Media Industries Journal *Corson provides depth to our knowledge of black filmmaking during the understudied downturn in the decade following Blaxploitation. Understanding changes in the economic and decision-making forces during this time put both the Blaxploitation era and the 1990s into a new context. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Blaxploitation Reconsidered: African American Directors and the Political Economy of Hollywood 2. Our Man in Hollywood: Creativity and Compromise in the Films of Michael Schultz 3. Writing His Second Act: Sidney Poitier’s Move Behind the Camera 4. Think Locally, Act Globally: Fred “the Hammer” Williamson, Low-Budget Genre Filmmaking, and the Struggle for Self-Definition 5. Outside of Society: Jamaa Fanaka, the LA Rebellion, and the Complications of Independent Filmmaking 6. Dreams Deferred: Untapped Potential, the Transformation of Black Popular Culture, and the Cinematic Legacies of Gilbert Moses and Stan Lathan 7. Dirty Minds Reformed: Celebrity, Power, and the Directorial Turns of Richard Pryor and Prince Conclusion Filmography, 1969–1994 Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
University of Texas Press A Love Letter to Texas Women
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed author of Above the East China Sea and The Yokota Officers Club celebrates the uniqueness of Texas women in this beautifully designed gift bookTrade ReviewNow here’s an old Second Wave feminist’s unbiased, fair and balanced review of Sarah Bird’s new book A Love Letter to Texas Women. It’s a hoot! A laugh-out-loud 80-page personal history with heart, grit and a galaxy of stars. -- Jane Sumner * The Austin American-Statesman *This teeny book by Austin writer Sarah Bird is a must for any proud Texas woman (and any Texas man proud to love a Texas woman.) In her trademark bitingly funny style, Bird talks about her journey from granola hippydom in New Mexico to the Aqua-Netted friendliness of Texas, and how she learned to love it. Great stories and quotes from greats such as the late Ann Richards and Lady Bird Johnson to everyday ladies getting their hair set in small towns. * San Antonio Express News *Bird brings her characteristic brand of unflappable humor to reflect on strong women—from the confident, colorfully named ladies of the Hyde Park Beauty Salon (“Eddie Faye, Peninah, Waynette, Permelia Lynn, Dicy”) to the grace and grit of first ladies and Distinguished Alumnae Lady Bird Johnson and Laura Bush. * The Alcalde *
£15.19
University of Texas Press Border Contraband
Book SynopsisPresent-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings that stretches back to 1848, when attempts by Mexico and the United States to tax commerce across the Rio Grande upset local trade and caused popular resentment. Rather than acquiesce to what they regarded as arbitrary trade regulations, borderlanders continued to cross goods and accepted many forms of smuggling as just. In Border Contraband, George T. Díaz provides the first history of the common, yet little studied, practice of smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border. In Part I, he examines the period between 1848 and 1910, when the United States' and Mexico's trade concerns focused on tariff collection and on borderlanders' attempts to avoid paying tariffs by smuggling. Part II begins with the onset of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, when national customs and other security forces on the border Trade Review"What governments define as illegal and what people consider wrong can differ widely," observes George T. Diaz in this engaging history of smuggling along the Texas-Mexico border... The flesh and blood he gives this history makes it a strong book for classroom adoption... It offers a productive point of departure-a way of conceptualizing the social worlds of smuggling-that will shape scholarly conversations about this region for years to come. " Journal of American History "Historian Diaz provides a lively narrative of the smuggling and trafficking across the Rio Grande River from 1848 to 1945." Choice "A well-researched historical study of smuggling along the Texas-Mexican border. Thorough and innovative ... It is a work well done and worthwhile." Southwestern Historical Quarterly "Diaz's Border Contraband is a gem. His clear and concise writing that brings in theory without all the theoretical jargon will make this an excellent option for upper-division undergraduate courses and graduate courses in both world history and borderlands studies... Unlike many treatments of the U.S.-Mexico border, Diaz's is truly transnational." World History Connected "A solidly researched volume that gives historical background to a contemporary hot topic, Border Contraband also demonstrates how smuggling has been a central part of borderlands Mexican American culture and lore." Journal of American Studies "If one is to understand our current situation with Mexico, one only has to look to Diaz's Border Contraband... a great addition to the history of the US-Mexican borderlands, giving both countries insight into the making of the border. Diaz has set the international research bar high, and as a result scholars and students will greatly benefit from such research." Hispanic American Historical Review "In this insightful and concisely written book, George Diaz shows for how much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries illicit smuggling played a central role in the daily lives of border people." Pacific Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Taxing Trade1. Creating a Contrabandista Community, 1848–18812. Rails, Trade, and Traffickers, 1881–1910Part II: Prohibiting Criminal Consumption3. Smugglers in Dangerous Times: Revolution and War, 1910–19194. Narcotics and Prohibition, 1914–19455. Smugglers and Seditionists: States Confront Illicit Traders, 1920–1945Epilogue: Good Deals and Drug DealsAppendix: Songs as SourcesNotesBibliographyIndex
£17.99
University of Texas Press Portable Borders
Book SynopsisAfter World War II, the concept of borders became unsettled, especially after the rise of subaltern and multicultural studies in the 1980s. Art at the U.S.-Mexico border came to a turning point at the beginning of that decade with the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Beginning with a political history of the border, with an emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, Ila Sheren explores the forces behind the shift in thinking about the border in the late twentieth century.Particularly in the world of visual art, borders have come to represent a space of performance rather than a geographical boundary, a cultural terrain meant to be negotiated rather than a physical line. From 1980 forward, Sheren argues, the border became portable through performance and conceptual work. This dematerialization of the physical border after the 1980s worked in two opposite directions—the movement of border thinking to the rest of the world, as well as the importationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Conceptual BorderChapter 2: The Portable BorderChapter 3: Re-Inscribing the BorderChapter 4: Post-Border?EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
£16.14
University of Texas Press J. Frank Dobie
Book SynopsisTaking a fresh look at a landmark Texas writer who hasn’t been the subject of a biography since Lon Tinkle’s 1978 An American Original, this book reveals J. Frank Dobie as a “free-range thinker” who fought for liberal political causes.Table of Contents Acknowledgments A Liberated Mind Part 1: Rebel of the Lost Cause Chapter 1: Along the Ramirenia Chapter 2: The Education of a Brush Countryman, 1904-1912 Chapter 3: From Texas to New York, 1913-1914 Chapter 4: Fighting Conformity, Courting Bertha, 1914-1916 Chapter 5: The Great War, 1915-1919 Part 2: The Rising Star Chapter 6: A Rangeland Epiphany, 1920-1921 Chapter 7: The Making of a Folklorist, 1921-1923 Chapter 8: The Rising Star, 1923-1926 Chapter 9: Voices of the Southwest, 1926-1930 Chapter 10: Regionalism Goes National, 1929-1930 Part 3: Mr. Texas Chapter 11: Dobie in Bloom, 1930-1934 Chapter 12: Into Mexico, 1933-1935 Chapter 13: The Flavor of Texas, 1936 Chapter 14: The Austin Liberals, 1936-1938 Chapter 15: Apache Gold vs. Pale Horse, 1937-1939 Part 4: Texas Needs Brains Chapter 16: The Longhorns, 1939-1941 Chapter 17: True Patriotism and the Singing Governor, 1940-1941 Chapter 18: The Liberal Hero, 1941-1943 Chapter 19: A Contemporary of Himself, 1943-1946 Chapter 20: A Texan in England, 1943-1946 Chapter 21: Texas Needs Brains, 1946-1947 Part 5: Elder Statesman Chapter 22: Coyote Wisdom, 1948-1953 Chapter 23: Elder Statesman, 1951-1958 Chapter 24: Literary Dictator, 1952-1960 Chapter 25: End of an Era, 1955-1959 Part 6: Twilight Chapter 26: One Touch of Nature, Plus, 1960-1962 Chapter 27: Sunset, 1962-1964 Chapter 28: Dobie's Legacy Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£20.89
University of Texas Press Batos Bolillos Pochos and Pelados
Book SynopsisNow thoroughly revised and updated, this classic account of life on the Texas-Mexico border reveals how the borderlands have been transformed by NAFTA, population growth and immigration crises, and increased drug violence.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Ranking and Class Inequality Chapter 1. Migrant Farmworkers (with Juanita Valdez Cox) Chapter 2. The Colonias of South Texas (with David Arizmendi) Chapter 3. “Only a Maid”: Undocumented Domestic Workers in South Texas Chapter 4. Social Inequality on the Mexican Side of the Border Conclusion to Part I: Social Class on the South Texas–Northern Mexico Border Part II. Racial and Ethnic Inequality Chapter 5. The Pain of Gain: South Texas Schools Then and Now (with Daniel P. King) Chapter 6. From Mexicanos to Mexican Americans to Americans? (with Chrystell Flota) Chapter 7. “Ahí Viene el Bolillo!”: Anglos in South Texas (with Jenny Chamberlain) Chapter 8. Race and Ethnicity in South Texas Conclusion to Part II: The Interaction of Race, Class, and Ethnicity Epilogue: The Strength and Resilience of People of the South Texas Border (with John Sargent) Appendix A. Borderlife Survey Research Projects Utilized in This Volume Appendix B. Students Who Contributed Ethnographic Accounts Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press La India Maria
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive interviews with the late actress and other film industry professionals, this book surveys the work of performer, director, and producer María Elena Velasco and her central place in Mexploitation cinema.Trade ReviewRohrer has produced a genuinely ground-breaking account of popular Mexican cinema through the prism of this specific director-producer-star. * The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Rohrer charts the rise of [María Elena] Velasco from vaudeville performer to comedic icon...The film historical interventions of the project are the book’s strength, but Rohrer’s project of recovery also discusses the narratives of Velasco’s films in relation to Mexploitation tropes and genres in order to identify the different symbolic functions of her India María character. * Revista de Esudios Hispánicos *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. La India María: From Vaudeville to the Big Screen 2. Mexploitation 3. Box-Office Moneymakers and Small-Screen Hits 4. Hated by Critics, Loved by the People 5. Crossing Borders: India María’s Diaspora Epilogue: India María and Mexploitation Today Overview of India María Films Filmography Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Nuevo South
Book SynopsisLatinas/os and Asians are rewriting the meaning and history of race in the American South by complicating the black/white binary that has frequently defined the region since before the Civil War. Arriving in southern communities as migrants or refugees, Latinas/os and Asians have experienced both begrudging acceptance and prejudice as their presence confronts and troubles local understandings of race and difference—understandings that have deep roots in each community’s particular racial history, as well as in national fears and anxieties about race.Nuevo South offers the first comparative study showing how Latinas/os and Asians are transforming race and place in the contemporary South. Integrating political, economic, and social analysis, Perla M. Guerrero examines the reception of Vietnamese, Cubans, and Mexicans in northwestern Arkansas communities that were almost completely white until the mid-1970s. She shows how reactions to these refugees and immigrTrade ReviewThis is the first comparative book on the transformation of race and place between Latina/os and Asians in the South. Guerrero challenges future scholars to broaden their understanding of the racial binary to explore and document the region's Latina/o and Asian history. A key contribution to Latina/o studies, Asian American studies, and American studies. * Choice Reviews *I recommend this book to any student examining [immigrant incorporation and race and ethnic relations in the South], especially in new destinations, or the Nuevo South. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *[A]n essential historical view into the longevity of racialization and anti-immigrant hostility...[Guerrero's] larger point is both clear and timely: whether for Vietnamese refugees in Fort Smith, Black students in Little Rock, or Latinx immigrants in Springdale and Rogers, place matters, and the legacies of racialized exclusions persist in uniquely place-based ways. * Great Plains Research *This is a timely publication for Arkansans and historians alike to understand the contemporary role the region plays in the local and national debates on immigration...Nuevo South succeeds in revealing the complexity of race and ethnic relations as Arkansas continues to be a frontier space within which brave new pioneers continue to forge a homeplace. * Fort Smith Historical Society Journal *Nuevo South demonstrates the power of place in defining race...While Guerrero's study calls us to study race in local and place-specific ways, her analysis of the interconnected and historically situated ways race has evolved offers much broader insight into the dynamic process of race-making. * Pacific Historical Review *[A] suggestive look into the fitful ethnoracial transformation of an important southern place. * Journal of Southern History *Perla M. Guerrero’s insightful book Nuevo South is important. She explores the immigration and migration of Vietnamese, Cubans, and Mexicans to northwest Arkansas and the local, state, and federal governments’ different, and often conflicted, responses to these people...This is a good book. * Latino Studies *Comparing the experiences of Vietnamese, Cuban, and Mexican refugees and migrants, Guerrero demonstrates why we need a more nuanced understanding of how these groups, and others, changed the face of the South and its many regional racial thinking. * New Books Network: History *For those interested in studies on comparative immigration, whiteness, and labor and class, Nuevo South opens a window onto the shifting contours of a lesser-known part of the South. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *As the first book to interweave Latina/o studies, Asian American studies, and Southern history, Nuevo South greatly advances all three fields. With its complex coverage of one of the South’s most important cultural and economic areas, it is a must read for any scholar interested in the US South, the rural United States, and migration...Guerrero has produced a groundbreaking work that will be cited for years to come and will likely inspire others to study the many regions of the United States that are changing with, and benefiting from, refugee and immigrant communities. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. New South to Nuevo South: Region, Labor, and Race Chapter 2. Yellow Peril in Arkansas: War, Christianity, and the Regional Racialization of Vietnamese Refugees Chapter 3. Mariel Cubans as an “Objectionable Burden” and “Illegal Aliens” Chapter 4. Latinas/os and Polleras: Social Networks, Multisite Migration, Raids, and Upward Mobility Chapter 5. “Northwest Arkansas’s No. 1 Societal Concern”: “Illegal Aliens,” Acts of Spatial Illegality, and Political Mobilizations Conclusion: Race, Plantation Bloc, and Nuevo South Notes Bibliography Index
£62.90
University of Texas Press Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before
Book SynopsisWith in-depth explorations of six contemporary American and British films and shows, this pioneering volume spotlights black female characters who play central, subversive roles in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.Trade ReviewWhere No Black Woman Has Gone Before does not pretend to be a comprehensive account of black women in speculative film and television, as Mafe makes clear, but it is the first book-length study of black femininity in this area...By attending to the visual and linguistic coding of black and female characters, Mafe exposes biases less explicit than plain exclusion. * Times Literary Supplement *Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before initiates a dialogue about black women in speculative film and television...a compelling contribution to the scholarship on speculative cinema and television, and will serve well scholars, students, and teachers in the field. * Journal of American Culture *Mafe's coda strikes a good balance between reflection and optimism while pointing to possible future directions black women in television and film may go. Mafe's goal of bringing light to subversive portrayals in speculative film and television is laudable and well executed. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before makes a genuine contribution as a pioneering effort in the study of race and gender in sf film and television. * Science Fiction Studies *Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before is concise and accessible with five well-written and theorized chapters…Mafe's narrow focus on representations of black women in non 'obvious block buster films' and in supporting roles raises insightful and useful points about the difference between superficial dismissible black female characters versus complex well-rounded black female characters...Mafe's arguments are sound and her reading of the texts convincing. * Journal of Popular Culture *Ambitious...Mafe’s argument highlights the need for more black female characters in speculative fiction...this text is a first step in the analysis of black female characters in speculative fiction and how difficult it is to find representation when the examples are few and far between. * Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts *[Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before] contributes to the discourse of race and genre in scholarship by expanding upon the complex position of black female characters in film and television that come under the broad banner of 'speculative fiction'...The strength of Mafe's book…lies in her way of reading these films and the black female characters in them. She endorses a mode of spectatorship that allows the conservative and radical tendencies of these films to exist side by side. By doing so, she suggests ways in which black female protagonists can be deconstructive figures, but also open spaces for new styles and tropes in sf. * Science Fiction Film and Television *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: To Boldly Go Chapter 1. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: 28 Days Later Chapter 2. Last One Standing: Alien vs. Predator Chapter 3. The Black Madonna: Children of Men Chapter 4. Thank Heaven for Little Girls: Beasts of the Southern Wild Chapter 5. Intergalactic Companions: Firefly and Doctor Who Coda: Final Frontiers Notes Works Cited Index
£63.00
University of Texas Press Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 72
Book SynopsisThe 2018 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American studies.
£97.20
University of Texas Press Managed Migrations
Book Synopsis2020 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Book Award Winner Honorable Mention, Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters, 2019Managed Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century. Needed at one moment, scorned at others, Mexican agricultural workers have moved back and forth across the US–Mexico border for the past century. In South Texas, Anglo growers’ dreams of creating a modern agricultural empire depended on continuous access to Mexican workers. While this access was officially regulated by immigration laws and policy promulgated in Washington, DC, in practice the migration of Mexican labor involved daily, on-the-ground negotiations among growers, workers, and the US Border Patrol. In a very real sense, these groups set Trade ReviewManaged Migrations proposes new ways to look at labor, grower, and government interplay in developing a social system and workspace in South Texas's agricultural border region...While other historians have described the development of stable, segregated Mexican colonias within American communities before the 1970s, Salinas's unique contribution to the field is the description of a distinctive transborder farmworker community, an amalgam of social and work space that turned out to be fragile and dependent on highly local conditions. * Journal of Southern History *[Managed Migrations] provides textured, engaging coverage of border labor issues…an engaging addition to the literature on labor and immigration at the Texas-Mexico border. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Salinas offers up a worthy addition to the burgeoning literature on Texas….[Managed Migrations] makes deep analytical arguments about the connections between the South's system of labor immobility that derives from plantation agriculture and the West's free labor ideology rooted in mobility. Salinas's book ultimately shows how these two contradictory traditions combined in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Managed Migrations provides a grounded history of Texas agribusiness in El Paso and the Rio Grande valley, and of its relationship to undocumented Mexican immigration and border enforcement…Managed Migrations will be deeply useful to historians of the U.S.-Mexico border and twentieth-century U.S. agribusiness and immigration. It will also be of value to anyone interested in the contemporary U.S.-Mexico borderlands--where border enforcement continues to manage labor and shape national politics. * Journal of American History *Managed Migrations is a study as paramount as it is timely…Cristina Salinas delivers a profound study of the ways that US and Mexican federal, state, and local governments sought to manage workers' migrations, and she ensures that the first-hand experiences of migrant workers are at the center of her transformative storytelling...Managed Migrations is a must-read. * Agricultural History *A splendid analysis of farmworker mobility in the US-Mexico borderlands…As lucid, interdisciplinary work, Managed Migrations should be prized by scholars of migrations, environments, and the carceral state…The book is comprehensive, beautifully crafted, and worth consideration by scholars across the discipline. * H-Net Reviews *Managed Migrations is an important contribution to the literatures on Mexican immigration, the ethnic-Mexican diaspora, and the South Texas borderlands in that it brings a careful and nuanced view to what drove the migration system during the first half of the twentieth century. Workers, growers, and government officials are all given fair inclusion here. As such, Managed Migrations is a telling example of borderlands history, which focuses on what happens when people from different social groups or nation states come together and interact. Unfortunately, for the workers themselves the results seem overwhelmingly stark. * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas *Managed Migrations addresses the central question of how, against all the evidence of this dysfunctional and racialized migration and labor system, the blame has historically been placed on undocumented migrants rather than on those who created it, maintain it, and continue to benefit from the exploitation of migrants’ precarious status. * American Historical Review *Managed Migrations is an accessible read for both undergraduate and graduate students and would fit well in courses on the US-Mexico border, immigration, and labor history. Given the ongoing criminalization of undocumented workers and growers’ use of these workers not just in South Texas, but across the nation, it should be required reading for immigration activists and policymakers. As a reader, it is my (perhaps, overly idealistic) hope that the stories Salinas tells will inspire dramatic, meaningful reform of immigration laws and enforcement. * Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies *An essential read if you want to understand how workers are managed by national (Mexico and US), state, and local actors. * Five Books, "The Best Books on Migrant Workers" *Salinas provides an engagingly written study that immerses readers in the agriculturally powerful region of South Texas...Salinas shows how growers shaped immigration law, the Border Patrol, and influenced demands for seasonal agricultural labor...Managed Migrations is a strong contribution to recent historiographies of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, United States history, immigration history, Mexican American and Latina/o history, and labor history. The book offers a compelling narrative for both specialists and those unfamiliar with the subject. * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. “Where Uncle Sam Meets Mexico”: Narratives of Frontier and Progress in Early Twentieth-Century South Texas Chapter 2. The Social Space of Agriculture Chapter 3. The Flexible Border: Mobility within Restriction in US Immigration Laws and Enforcement Chapter 4. Exploitative Villain or Community Leader? Agricultural Labor Contractors, the State, and Control over Worker Mobility Chapter 5. El Paso/The Passage: The 1948 El Paso Incident and the Politics of Mobility Chapter 6. The High Price of Immigration Politics during the 1950s Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£31.50
University of Texas Press Managed Migrations
Book SynopsisManaged Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century.Trade ReviewManaged Migrations proposes new ways to look at labor, grower, and government interplay in developing a social system and workspace in South Texas's agricultural border region...While other historians have described the development of stable, segregated Mexican colonias within American communities before the 1970s, Salinas's unique contribution to the field is the description of a distinctive transborder farmworker community, an amalgam of social and work space that turned out to be fragile and dependent on highly local conditions. * Journal of Southern History *[Managed Migrations] provides textured, engaging coverage of border labor issues…an engaging addition to the literature on labor and immigration at the Texas-Mexico border. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Salinas offers up a worthy addition to the burgeoning literature on Texas….[Managed Migrations] makes deep analytical arguments about the connections between the South's system of labor immobility that derives from plantation agriculture and the West's free labor ideology rooted in mobility. Salinas's book ultimately shows how these two contradictory traditions combined in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Managed Migrations provides a grounded history of Texas agribusiness in El Paso and the Rio Grande valley, and of its relationship to undocumented Mexican immigration and border enforcement…Managed Migrations will be deeply useful to historians of the U.S.-Mexico border and twentieth-century U.S. agribusiness and immigration. It will also be of value to anyone interested in the contemporary U.S.-Mexico borderlands--where border enforcement continues to manage labor and shape national politics. * Journal of American History *Managed Migrations is a study as paramount as it is timely…Cristina Salinas delivers a profound study of the ways that US and Mexican federal, state, and local governments sought to manage workers' migrations, and she ensures that the first-hand experiences of migrant workers are at the center of her transformative storytelling...Managed Migrations is a must-read. * Agricultural History *A splendid analysis of farmworker mobility in the US-Mexico borderlands…As lucid, interdisciplinary work, Managed Migrations should be prized by scholars of migrations, environments, and the carceral state…The book is comprehensive, beautifully crafted, and worth consideration by scholars across the discipline. * H-Net Reviews *Managed Migrations is an important contribution to the literatures on Mexican immigration, the ethnic-Mexican diaspora, and the South Texas borderlands in that it brings a careful and nuanced view to what drove the migration system during the first half of the twentieth century. Workers, growers, and government officials are all given fair inclusion here. As such, Managed Migrations is a telling example of borderlands history, which focuses on what happens when people from different social groups or nation states come together and interact. Unfortunately, for the workers themselves the results seem overwhelmingly stark. * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas *Managed Migrations addresses the central question of how, against all the evidence of this dysfunctional and racialized migration and labor system, the blame has historically been placed on undocumented migrants rather than on those who created it, maintain it, and continue to benefit from the exploitation of migrants’ precarious status. * American Historical Review *Managed Migrations is an accessible read for both undergraduate and graduate students and would fit well in courses on the US-Mexico border, immigration, and labor history. Given the ongoing criminalization of undocumented workers and growers’ use of these workers not just in South Texas, but across the nation, it should be required reading for immigration activists and policymakers. As a reader, it is my (perhaps, overly idealistic) hope that the stories Salinas tells will inspire dramatic, meaningful reform of immigration laws and enforcement. * Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies *An essential read if you want to understand how workers are managed by national (Mexico and US), state, and local actors. * Five Books, "The Best Books on Migrant Workers" *Salinas provides an engagingly written study that immerses readers in the agriculturally powerful region of South Texas...Salinas shows how growers shaped immigration law, the Border Patrol, and influenced demands for seasonal agricultural labor...Managed Migrations is a strong contribution to recent historiographies of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, United States history, immigration history, Mexican American and Latina/o history, and labor history. The book offers a compelling narrative for both specialists and those unfamiliar with the subject. * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. “Where Uncle Sam Meets Mexico”: Narratives of Frontier and Progress in Early Twentieth-Century South Texas Chapter 2. The Social Space of Agriculture Chapter 3. The Flexible Border: Mobility within Restriction in US Immigration Laws and Enforcement Chapter 4. Exploitative Villain or Community Leader? Agricultural Labor Contractors, the State, and Control over Worker Mobility Chapter 5. El Paso/The Passage: The 1948 El Paso Incident and the Politics of Mobility Chapter 6. The High Price of Immigration Politics during the 1950s Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Universal Citizenship
Book SynopsisRecently, many critics have questioned the idea of universal citizenship by pointing to the racial, class, and gendered exclusions on which the notion of universality rests. Rather than jettison the idea of universal citizenship, however, R. Andrés Guzmán builds on these critiques to reaffirm it especially within the fields of Latina/o and ethnic studies. Beyond conceptualizing citizenship as an outcome of recognition and admittance by the nation-state—in a negotiation for the right to have rights—he asserts that, insofar as universal citizenship entails a forceful entrance into the political from the latter’s foundational exclusions, it emerges at the limits of legality and illegality via a process that exceeds identitarian capture.Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosopher Alain Badiou’s notion of “generic politics,” Guzmán advances his argument through close analyses of various literary, cultural, and Trade ReviewGuzmán’s incisive approach to the role of identity in Latino studies and broader collective group formation offers a timely intervention that will serve scholars in numerous disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. A compelling read that adds necessary revisions to understandings of undocumentation in Latino studies and of migration more broadly, Guzmán’s text offers a nuanced perspective on political action and structural change. By moving in scale from the individual’s relation to the self to the individual’s relationship to broader society, Guzmán activates a wide range of methods for cohering the social into radical democratic acts, offering new ways to approach the subject at the limits of identity and the nation-state. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Universal Citizenship at the Limits of Nature and Culture Chapter 1. Cause and Consistency: The Democratic Act, Universal Citizenship, and Nation Chapter 2. Ethnics of the Real: HB 2281 and the Alien(ated) Subject Chapter 3. Criminalization at the Edge of the Evental Site: Migrant “Illegality,” Universal Citizenship, and the 2006 Immigration Marches Chapter 4. Oscar “Zeta” Acosta and Generic Politics: At the Margins of Identity and Law Chapter 5. Between Crowd and Group: Fantasy, Revolutionary Nation, and the Politics of the Not-All Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Si Ella Puede
Book Synopsis Winner, Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, Latina/o Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2020 Since the 1950s, Latina activist Dolores Huerta has been a fervent leader and organizer in the struggle for farmworkers’ rights within the Latina/o community. A cofounder of the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s alongside César Chávez, Huerta was a union vice president for nearly four decades before starting her own foundation in the early 2000s. She continues to act as a dynamic speaker, passionate lobbyist, and dedicated figure for social and political change, but her crucial contributions and commanding presence have often been overshadowed by those of Chávez and other leaders in the Chicana/o movement. In this new study, Stacey K. Sowards closely examines Huerta’s rhetorical skills both in and out of the public Trade Review[Sí, Ella Puede!] opens an important conversation about Dolores Huerta as a major figure of twentieth-century civil rights organizing…Sowards's integration of Chicana and Latina feminist theories, emphasis on agency in the context of social movements, and incorporation of archival materials invites historians, sociologists, feminist studies scholars, and Latinx studies scholars to consider new frameworks that increase the visibility of the social movement activism of women of color. * Journal of Arizona History *¡Si, Ella Puede! foregrounds the rich, complex, and often contradictory narratives by and about Huerta’s 60-year legacy of activism. From a rhetorical perspective using oral history interviews, witness accounts, secondary sources along with a collection of selected archival material, Sowards makes the case for including Huerta’s corpus of speeches, letters, and testimonies related to her grassroots mobilizing efforts on behalf of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) in the canon of Chicana political rhetoric and post-World War II U.S. civil rights history. * Quarterly Journal of Speech *Shifting the focus from male leadership in historical and rhetorical scholarship about the UFW and the Chicano/a movement, Sowards instead centers the role of women and their activism. To achieve this, the book relies on impressive archival research, ethnography, and interviews...Sowards’s timely book brings to the forefront how women activists have strategically used their varied identities to shape and deploy their rhetorical agency, gain power, and advance social justice causes. Sowards’s study is likely to inspire future studies in Chicana/Latina rhetorics, potentially bringing attention to obfuscated figures such as Helen Chávez, Hope López, and Jessica Govea. * Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society *[¡Sí, Ella Puede!] provides a holistic analysis of the structural and intersectional factors that shaped her agential tactics and enabled Huerta to inspire her audiences. The text is a valuable read for students and educators of rhetorical discourse and those interested in marginal forms of oratorical expression...¡Sí, Ella Puede! is a powerful rhetorical tool and a necessary call for the continued examination of past and present marginalized rhetorics. * Women's Studies in Communication *¡Sí, Ella Puede! offers an important intervention and a refreshing, intimate reassessment of Huerta...Sowards offers a compelling look at the evolution of an activist and leader. Huerta’s life and language are front and center, demonstrating why and how she played such a significant role in the UFW and, further, how women at the margins of dominant society can exercise rhetorical agency. As such, historians of the UFW will find this study of much interest, as will scholars of social movements...¡Sí, Ella Puede! is a rigorous and engaging exploration of the life, rhetoric, and legacy of a remarkable figure. * Pacific Historical Review *¡Sí, Ella Puede! is an important addition to recent scholarship on the United Farm Workers union (UFW) and the farmworker social movement...this is a valuable work that advances our understanding of the political and personal struggles of women in the construction of the UFW and the contemporary farmworker movement. !Sí, Ella Puede! is a welcome addition to the new body of scholarship on this historic movement, which will be useful to students and scholars in the fields of Chicana/o studies, US ethnic studies, US gender studies, and US labor studies. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Farm Worker Organizing and the Advent of the UFW: 1900 to 1993 Chapter 2. Dolores Huerta’s Life: Intersectional Habitus as Rhetorical Agency Chapter 3. Letters to César Chávez: Building Collaborative Agency Chapter 4. Motherhood, Familia, Emotionality: Strategic Use of Gendered Public Persona Chapter 5. Public Persona of Differential Bravery through Collaborative Egalitarianism and Courageous Optimism Chapter 6. Dolores Huerta, Iconicity, and Social Movements Epilogue References Index
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University of Texas Press Si Ella Puede
Book Synopsis Winner, Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, Latina/o Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2020 Since the 1950s, Latina activist Dolores Huerta has been a fervent leader and organizer in the struggle for farmworkers’ rights within the Latina/o community. A cofounder of the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s alongside César Chávez, Huerta was a union vice president for nearly four decades before starting her own foundation in the early 2000s. She continues to act as a dynamic speaker, passionate lobbyist, and dedicated figure for social and political change, but her crucial contributions and commanding presence have often been overshadowed by those of Chávez and other leaders in the Chicana/o movement. In this new study, Stacey K. Sowards closely examines Huerta’s rhetorical skills both in and out of the public Trade Review[Sí, Ella Puede!] opens an important conversation about Dolores Huerta as a major figure of twentieth-century civil rights organizing…Sowards's integration of Chicana and Latina feminist theories, emphasis on agency in the context of social movements, and incorporation of archival materials invites historians, sociologists, feminist studies scholars, and Latinx studies scholars to consider new frameworks that increase the visibility of the social movement activism of women of color. * Journal of Arizona History *¡Si, Ella Puede! foregrounds the rich, complex, and often contradictory narratives by and about Huerta’s 60-year legacy of activism. From a rhetorical perspective using oral history interviews, witness accounts, secondary sources along with a collection of selected archival material, Sowards makes the case for including Huerta’s corpus of speeches, letters, and testimonies related to her grassroots mobilizing efforts on behalf of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) in the canon of Chicana political rhetoric and post-World War II U.S. civil rights history. * Quarterly Journal of Speech *Shifting the focus from male leadership in historical and rhetorical scholarship about the UFW and the Chicano/a movement, Sowards instead centers the role of women and their activism. To achieve this, the book relies on impressive archival research, ethnography, and interviews...Sowards’s timely book brings to the forefront how women activists have strategically used their varied identities to shape and deploy their rhetorical agency, gain power, and advance social justice causes. Sowards’s study is likely to inspire future studies in Chicana/Latina rhetorics, potentially bringing attention to obfuscated figures such as Helen Chávez, Hope López, and Jessica Govea. * Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society *[¡Sí, Ella Puede!] provides a holistic analysis of the structural and intersectional factors that shaped her agential tactics and enabled Huerta to inspire her audiences. The text is a valuable read for students and educators of rhetorical discourse and those interested in marginal forms of oratorical expression...¡Sí, Ella Puede! is a powerful rhetorical tool and a necessary call for the continued examination of past and present marginalized rhetorics. * Women's Studies in Communication *¡Sí, Ella Puede! offers an important intervention and a refreshing, intimate reassessment of Huerta...Sowards offers a compelling look at the evolution of an activist and leader. Huerta’s life and language are front and center, demonstrating why and how she played such a significant role in the UFW and, further, how women at the margins of dominant society can exercise rhetorical agency. As such, historians of the UFW will find this study of much interest, as will scholars of social movements...¡Sí, Ella Puede! is a rigorous and engaging exploration of the life, rhetoric, and legacy of a remarkable figure. * Pacific Historical Review *¡Sí, Ella Puede! is an important addition to recent scholarship on the United Farm Workers union (UFW) and the farmworker social movement...this is a valuable work that advances our understanding of the political and personal struggles of women in the construction of the UFW and the contemporary farmworker movement. !Sí, Ella Puede! is a welcome addition to the new body of scholarship on this historic movement, which will be useful to students and scholars in the fields of Chicana/o studies, US ethnic studies, US gender studies, and US labor studies. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Farm Worker Organizing and the Advent of the UFW: 1900 to 1993 Chapter 2. Dolores Huerta’s Life: Intersectional Habitus as Rhetorical Agency Chapter 3. Letters to César Chávez: Building Collaborative Agency Chapter 4. Motherhood, Familia, Emotionality: Strategic Use of Gendered Public Persona Chapter 5. Public Persona of Differential Bravery through Collaborative Egalitarianism and Courageous Optimism Chapter 6. Dolores Huerta, Iconicity, and Social Movements Epilogue References Index
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University of Texas Press meXicana Fashions
Book SynopsisFifteen scholars examine the social identities, class hierarchies, regionalisms, and other codes of communication that are exhibited or perceived in meXicana clothing styles.Trade ReviewOne of the greatest strengths of this work is its commitment to combatting a tendency toward essentialism in dress studies, particularly for what typically gets deemed 'ethnic,' 'minority,” or 'subcultural' dress, by underscoring the complex, inconsistent, and sometimes contradictory ways we may experience self and how we variously perform those intersectional identities...The chapters of meXicana Fashions demonstrate many thoughtful attempts to interrogate old and invent new terms, categories, and concepts for identification and analysis...For folklorists, dress scholars, and those interested in material culture, media, and gender studies, there is a lot to value here. * Journal of Folklore Research *[meXicana Fashions's] editors' intentions of initiating discussion, questioning, and exploration of the significance of fashion, self adornment, and the economics of self fashioning are well served by this diversity of current writings by meXicanas and women of Colour searching for social and self identity outside of the hegemonic fashion industry. This book would be an important point of reference within Mexican American studies and particularly in studies of dress and the creation of both personal and social identity. It is a useful source for complexities of dress, adornment, and the constructions and reconstructions of cultural identities. * Journal of Dress History *This book is a jewel of fashion knowledge and should be a part of every fashion library to learn how clothing can be used for personal identity and more so, a form of respect for society as a whole – a respect through ‘fashion for all’ and one always evolving within our likes and differences. Change is what makes up the ideal of fashion. * Fashion, Style & Popular Culture *[meXicana Fashions] presents the academy with an inspirational model for weaving authenticity and authority alongside the rigors of multimedium and multimethodological research. The result is an insightful and innovate book for those interested in fashion theory, cultural theory, identity politics, textile arts, Latinx/Xicana/Indigenous identity, history, art, and literature, as well as pedagogy. * New Mexico Historical Review *I have been waiting years for this book...The editors are courageous in their refusal of conformity, even at the level of citation styles, and they appear to model for us what academic diversity can look like in print…the book is a delightful and recommended read. * Chiricú Journal *Table of Contents Introduction (Aída Hurtado and Norma E. Cantú) Section I. Rendering of Self: Personal Narratives/Personal Adornment Chapter 1. Wearing Identity: Chicanas and Huipiles (Norma E. Cantú) Chapter 2. Con el huipil en la mente: The Metamorphosis of a Chicana (Josie Méndez-Negrete) Chapter 3. “Rebozos, huipiles, y ¿Qué?”: Chicana Self-Fashioning in the Academy (Micaela Díaz-Sánchez) Chapter 4. Por la facha y por el traje, se conoce al personaje: Tales about Attire as Resistance and Performativity in a Chicana’s Life Trajectory (Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs) Chapter 5. A Familial Legacy of meXicana Style (Domino Renee Perez) Section II. The Politics of Dress: Saying It Loud/Saying It Clear Chapter 6. Buying the Dream: Relating “Traditional” Dress to Consumer Practices within US Quinceañeras (Rachel Valentina González-Martin) Chapter 7. Visuality, Corporality, and Power (Aída Hurtado) Chapter 8. Black, Brown, and Fa(t)shionable: The Role of Fat Women of Color in the Rise of Body Positivity (Jade D. Petermon) Chapter 9. Fashioning Decolonial Optics: Days of the Dead Walking Altars and Calavera Fashion Shows in Latina/o Los Angeles (Laura Pérez) Chapter 10. “Fierce and Fearless”: Dress and Identity in Rigoberto González’s The Mariposa Club (Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez) Section III. The Politics of Entrepreneurship: Making (It)/Selling (It)) Chapter 11. Lydia Mendoza, “Reina de la Música Tejana”: Self-Stylizing Mexicanidad through China Poblana in the US-Mexico Borderlands (Marci R. McMahon) Chapter 12. (Ad)Dressing Chicana/Latina Femininities: Consumption, Labor, and the Cultural Politics of Style in Latina Fashion (Stacy I. Macías) Chapter 13. Urban Xican/x-Indigenous Fashion Show ARTivism: Experimental Ethnographies and Perform-Antics in Three Actos (Chela Sandoval, Amber Rose González, and Felicia Montes) Contributors Index
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