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Book Synopsis
The first comparative study of the literature and cultures of three distinct yet interrelated ethnic groups: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and Chicanos.

Table of Contents
  • Agradecimientos
  • Prelude
  • Introduction: Intercultural Connections
  • Chapter 1. "In Bed" with La Malinche: Stories of "Family" à la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis
  • Chapter 2. La Malinche at the Intersection of Puerto Rican and African American Cultures: Piri Thomas and Down These Mean Streets
  • Interlude 2. La Malinche: Shuffling the Puerto Rican Border in Spanish and Black Harlem
  • Chapter 3. Of Nutshells, Frogs, and Men in Manchild in the Promised Land
  • Interlude 3. Grandma Knows Best: The Women in Manchild in the Promised Land
  • Chapter 4. Overcoming Self-Loathing, Learning to Love Brownness: Oscar Zeta Acosta and The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
  • Interlude 4. The Brown Buffalo Puts On Blackface
  • Epilogue: La Malinche Comes Home
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Copyright Acknowledgments
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/2006
      ISBN13: 9780292709652, 978-0292709652
      ISBN10: 029270965X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first comparative study of the literature and cultures of three distinct yet interrelated ethnic groups: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and Chicanos.

      Table of Contents
      • Agradecimientos
      • Prelude
      • Introduction: Intercultural Connections
      • Chapter 1. "In Bed" with La Malinche: Stories of "Family" à la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis
      • Chapter 2. La Malinche at the Intersection of Puerto Rican and African American Cultures: Piri Thomas and Down These Mean Streets
      • Interlude 2. La Malinche: Shuffling the Puerto Rican Border in Spanish and Black Harlem
      • Chapter 3. Of Nutshells, Frogs, and Men in Manchild in the Promised Land
      • Interlude 3. Grandma Knows Best: The Women in Manchild in the Promised Land
      • Chapter 4. Overcoming Self-Loathing, Learning to Love Brownness: Oscar Zeta Acosta and The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
      • Interlude 4. The Brown Buffalo Puts On Blackface
      • Epilogue: La Malinche Comes Home
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Copyright Acknowledgments
      • Index

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