The emergence of Mexican America : recovering stories of Mexican peoplehood in U.S. culture

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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Main Author: Rivera, John-Michael, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2006
Series:Critical America.
Subjects:
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans > History.
Mexican Americans > Cultural assimilation.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • How do you make the invisible, visible? : locating stories of Mexican peoplehood
  • Don Zavala goes to Washington : translating U.S. democracy
  • Constituting terra incognita : the "Mexican question" in U.S. print culture
  • Embodying manifest destiny : María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the color of Mexican womanhood
  • Claiming los bilitos : Miguel Antonio Otero and the fight for New Mexican manhood
  • "Con su pluma en su mano" : Américo Paredes and the poetics of "Mexican-American" peoplehood
  • Recovering la memoria : locating the recent past.

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