UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mexican ballads, Chicano poems: history and influence in Mexican-American social poetry Author: Limón, José Eduardo Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| American Studies \| Latin American History \| Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of l . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Creation of tribalism in Southern Africa Author: Vail, Leroy Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| African History \| African Studies \| Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Despite a quarter century of "nation building," most African states are still driven by ethnic particularism - commonly known as "tribalism." The stubborn persistence of tribal ideologies despite the profound changes associated with modernization has puzzled scholars and African leaders alike. The b . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Technopolis: high-technology industry and regional development in southern California Author: Scott, Allen John Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Urban Studies \| Geography \| Politics Publisher's Description: Technopolis is a timely theoretical and empirical investigation of the world's largest high-technology industrial complex - Southern California. Allen Scott provides a new conceptual framework for understanding urban and regional growth processes based on a combination of inter-industrial, labor mar . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The view from Vesuvius: Italian culture and the southern question Author: Moe, Nelson 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: European Studies \| European History \| Intellectual History \| Politics \| European Literature Publisher's Description: The vexed relationship between the two parts of Italy, often referred to as the Southern Question, has shaped that nation's political, social, and cultural life throughout the twentieth century. But how did southern Italy become "the south," a place and people seen as different from and inferior to . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ngoma: discourses of healing in central and southern Africa Author: Janzen, John M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| African Studies \| Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ngoma , in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's daring study incorporates drumming and sp . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ecology of the Southern California Bight: a synthesis and interpretation Author: Dailey, Murray D Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science \| Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| Biology Publisher's Description: Here is a benchmark study of one significant stretch of the Pacific Ocean, the Southern California Bight. Extending from Point Conception to the Mexican border and out to the 200-mile limit, these waters have never before been investigated in such detail, from so many points of view, by such an emin . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Proletarians of the North: a history of Mexican industrial workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933 Author: Vargas, Zaragosa Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Latino Studies \| Chicano Studies Publisher's Description: Between the end of World War I and the Great Depression, over 58,000 Mexicans journeyed to the Midwest in search of employment. Many found work in agriculture, but thousands more joined the growing ranks of the industrial proletariat. Throughout the northern Midwest, and especially in Detroit, Mexic . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Race, police, and the making of a political identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945 Author: Escobar, Edward J 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Latin American History \| Latino Studies \| Social Problems \| Politics \| Californian and Western History \| Urban Studies \| Criminology \| Criminology Publisher's Description: In June 1943, the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting it had seen to that point in the twentieth century. Incited by sensational newspaper stories and the growing public hysteria over allegations of widespread Mexican American juvenile crime, scores of American servicemen, jo . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Spirit wars: Native North American religions in the age of nation building Author: Niezen, Ronald Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion \| Cultural Anthropology \| Native American Studies \| Religion \| American Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Frontiers of historical imagination: narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990 Author: Klein, Kerwin Lee 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| American Studies \| Anthropology \| United States History \| Intellectual History \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Migrant daughter: coming of age as a Mexican American woman Author: Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel 1931- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| Women's Studies \| Chicano Studies \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Taking us from the open spaces of rural New Mexico and the fields of California's Great Central Valley to the intellectual milieu of student life in Berkeley during the 1950s, this memoir, based on an oral history by Mario T. García, is the powerful and moving testimonio of a young Mexican American . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: A courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families Author: Hirsch, Jennifer S Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| American Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Latino Studies \| Chicano Studies \| Sociology \| Gender Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Immigration \| Sociology Publisher's Description: From about seven children per woman in 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6. Such changes are part of a larger transformation explored in this book, a richly detailed ethnographic study of generational and migration-related redefinitions of gender, marriage, and sexuality in r . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The white scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture Author: Foley, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Ethnic Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the cotton culture of central Texas. This engrossing narrative, spanning the period from the Civil War through the collapse of tenant farming in the early 1 . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the great migration to the Great Depression Author: Monroy, Douglas Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Latino Studies \| United States History \| California and the West Publisher's Description: This sweeping, vibrant narrative chronicles the history of the Mexican community in Los Angeles. Douglas Monroy unravels the dramatic, complex story of Mexican immigration to Los Angeles during the early decades of the twentieth century and shows how Mexican immigrants re-created their lives and the . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Memories of Chicano history: the life and narrative of Bert Corona Author: García, Mario T Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Latino Studies \| Chicano Studies \| Autobiography \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Who is Bert Corona? Though not readily identified by most Americans, nor indeed by many Mexican Americans, Corona is a man of enormous political commitment whose activism has spanned much of this century. Now his voice can be heard by the wide audience it deserves. In this landmark publication - the . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Whitewashed adobe: the rise of Los Angeles and the remaking of its Mexican past Author: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Chicano Studies \| American Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city - including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the o . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women without class: girls, race, and identity Author: Bettie, Julie 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| Sociology \| Chicano Studies \| American Studies \| Popular Culture \| Education \| Anthropology \| Social Problems \| Immigration Publisher's Description: In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color, et . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Conquests and historical identities in California, 1769-1936 Author: Haas, Lisbeth Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Ethnic Studies \| Latino Studies \| American Studies \| Gender Studies \| California and the West \| United States History Publisher's Description: Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mi . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: The frontier in American culture: an exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995 Author: White, Richard 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Native American Ethnicity Publisher's Description: Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Blood politics: race, culture, and identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Author: Sturm, Circe 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Native American Studies \| Native American Ethnicity \| African American Studies Publisher's Description: Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedde . . . [more] Similar Items