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1. | | Title: The children of NAFTA: labor wars on the U.S./Mexico borderAuthor: Bacon, David 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Labor Studies | Ethnic Studies | Latin American Studies | Immigration | Politics | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation of our everyday lives is produced along the U.S./Mexico border in a world largely hidden from our view. Based on gripping firsthand accounts, this book investigates the impact of the North American Fr . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Border matters: remapping American cultural studiesAuthor: Saldívar, José David Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Popular Culture | LiteraturePublisher's Description: Border Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. José Saldívar examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts - corridos , novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and es . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: MeXicana encounters: the making of social identities on the borderlandsAuthor: Fregoso, Rosa Linda Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Chicano Studies | California and the West | Film | Women's Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Latin American Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers are . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Border correspondent: selected writings, 1955-1970 Author: Salazar, Ruben 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | United States History | Media Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and in the evolution of race relations in the U.S. Taken together, the articles serve as a documentary hist . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Mayo ethnobotany: land, history, and traditional knowledge in northwest MexicoAuthor: Yetman, David 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Botany | Cultural Anthropology | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: The Mayos, an indigenous people of northwestern Mexico, live in small towns spread over southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa, lands of remarkable biological diversity. Traditional Mayo knowledge is quickly being lost as this culture becomes absorbed into modern Mexico. Moreover, as big agriculture s . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: A courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational familiesAuthor: 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 | SociologyPublisher'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 | 7. | | Title: Exits from the labyrinth: culture and ideology in the Mexican national spaceAuthor: Lomnitz Adler, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American HistoryPublisher's Description: Can we address the issue of nationalism without polemics and restore it to the domain of social science? Claudio Lomnitz-Adler takes a major step in that direction by applying anthropological tools to the study of national culture. His sweeping and innovative interpretation of Mexican national ideol . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | 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 MythologyPublisher'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 | 9. | | Title: Refried Elvis: the rise of the Mexican counterculture Author: Zolov, Eric Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Popular Culture | Chicano Studies | Latin American Studies | Contemporary MusicPublisher's Description: This powerful study shows how America's biggest export, rock and roll, became a major influence in Mexican politics, society, and culture. From the arrival of Elvis in Mexico during the 1950s to the emergence of a full-blown counterculture movement by the late 1960s, Eric Zolov uses rock and roll to . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Empire and revolution: the Americans in Mexico since the Civil WarAuthor: Hart, John M. (John Mason) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Latin American History | United States History | American Studies | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: The deep relationship between the United States and Mexico has had repercussions felt around the world. This sweeping and unprecedented chronicle of the economic and social connections between the two nations opens a new window onto history from the Civil War to today and brilliantly illuminates the . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the great migration to the Great DepressionAuthor: Monroy, Douglas Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Latino Studies | United States History | California and the WestPublisher'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 | 12. | | Title: Migrant daughter: coming of age as a Mexican American womanAuthor: 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 BiographiesPublisher'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 | 13. | | Title: Mexico's mandarins: crafting a power elite for the twenty-first centuryAuthor: Camp, Roderic Ai Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: This groundbreaking study marks the culmination of over twenty years of research by one of this country's most prominent Mexico scholars. Roderic Ai Camp provides a detailed, comprehensive examination of Mexico's power elite - their political power, societal influence, and the crucial yet often over . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: The Spanish redemption: heritage, power, and loss on New Mexico's upper Rio GrandeAuthor: Montgomery, Charles H 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | United States History | Latino Studies | California and the WestPublisher's Description: Charles Montgomery's compelling narrative traces the history of the upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos sought to redefine the region's social character by glorifying its Spanish colonial past. This readable book demonstrates that northern New Mexico's twentie . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: Zapata lives!: histories and cultural politics in southern MexicoAuthor: Stephen, Lynn Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Anthropology | Sociology | American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Latin American History | Politics | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: This richly detailed study chronicles recent political events in southern Mexico, up to and including the July 2000 election of Vicente Fox. Lynn Stephen focuses on the meaning that Emiliano Zapata, the great symbol of land reform and human rights, has had and now has for rural Mexicans. Stephen doc . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Tijuana: stories on the border Author: Campbell, Federico Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Chicano Studies | Ethnic Studies | Latin American Studies | Literature in TranslationPublisher's Description: Tijuana is a haunting collection of stories and a novella, all set in the shadowy borderlands between Mexico and the United States. A fresh and evocative voice, Federico Campbell traces many kinds of borders - geographical, psychological, cultural, spiritual - and the "halfway beings" that inhabit t . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Mexico at the world's fairs: crafting a modern nation Author: Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | LiteraturePublisher's Description: This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair - whe . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: The romance of democracy: compliant defiance in contemporary MexicoAuthor: Gutmann, Matthew C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Latino Studies | Latin American Studies | Sociology | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: The Romance of Democracy gives a unique insider perspective on contemporary Mexico by examining the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City today. A highly absorbing and vividly detailed ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation, the book pro . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Whitewashed adobe: the rise of Los Angeles and the remaking of its Mexican pastAuthor: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Chicano Studies | American Studies | Urban StudiesPublisher'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 | 20. | | Title: Proletarians of the North: a history of Mexican industrial workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933Author: Vargas, Zaragosa Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | United States History | Latino Studies | Chicano StudiesPublisher'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 |
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