{"product_id":"a-promising-problem-9781477309032","title":"A Promising Problem","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eA Promising Problem\u003c\/i\u003e's] essays offer fresh insights that make this edited collection a worthwhile read.\" * Pacific Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"The essays assembled [in \u003ci\u003eA Promising Problem\u003c\/i\u003e] 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"While the essays [in \u003ci\u003eA Promising Problem\u003c\/i\u003e] 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One. Looking In while Stepping Out: Growth, Reassessment, and the Promising Problem of the New Chicana\/o History (Carlos Kevin Blanton)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two. The Accidental Historian; or, How I Found My Groove in Legal History (Michael A. Olivas)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three. Moving beyond Aztlán: Disrupting Nationalism and Geographic Essentialism in Chicano\/a History (Lilia Fernández)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four. Chicana\/o History as Southern History: Race, Place, and the US South (Perla M. Guerrero)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Five. Sacred Spaces: Race, Resistance, and the Politics of Chicana\/o and Latina\/o Religious History (Felipe Hinojosa)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Six. Chicanas in the US-Mexican Borderlands: Transborder Conversations of Feminism and Anarchism, 1905–1938 (Sonia Hernández)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Seven. Eastside Imaginaries: Toward a Relational and Transnational Chicana\/o Cultural History (Luis Alvarez)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelect Bibliography of Recent Publications in Chicana\/o History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408944800087,"sku":"9781477309032","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477309032.jpg?v=1730504806","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-promising-problem-9781477309032","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}