The emergence of Mexican America : recovering stories of Mexican peoplehood in U.S. culture /
Winner of the 2006 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary Studies, presented by the Western Literature Association. In The Emergence of Mexican America, John-Michael Rivera examines the cultural, political, and legal representations of Mexican Americans and the development of US capi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2006
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| Series: | Critical America.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Winner of the 2006 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary Studies, presented by the Western Literature Association. In The Emergence of Mexican America, John-Michael Rivera examines the cultural, political, and legal representations of Mexican Americans and the development of US capitalism and nationhood. Beginning with the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 and continuing through the period of mass repatriation of US Mexican laborers in 1939, Rivera examines both Mexican-American and Anglo-American cultural production in order to tease out the complexities of the so-called "Me |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435607385 1435607384 9780814777305 0814777309 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 23, 2021). |
