Preface to the Third Edition
The Dissension of Other Things / Chon A. Noriega
I. Decolonizing the Territory
Introduction /Eric Avila
Toward an Operational Definition of the Mexican American / Fernando Penalosa
Toward a Perspective on Chicano History / Juan Gomez-Quinones
Los Desarraigados: Chicanos in the Midwestern Region of the United States / Gilberto Cardenas
Recent Chicano Historiography: An Interpretive Essay / Alex M. Saragoza
Chicano Cinema and the Horizon of Expectations: A Discursive Analysis of Film Reviews in the Mainstream, Alternative, and Hispanic Press, 1987–1988 / Chon A. Noriega
Refiguring Aztlan / Rafael Perez-Torres
The Curandera of Conquest: Gloria Anzaldua's Decolonial Remedy / George Hartley
II. Performing Politics
Introduction / Karen Mary Davalos
Chicano Teatro: A Background / Jorge A. Huerta
Folklore, Lo Mexicano, and Proverbs / Americo Paredes
Mexican Muralism: Its Social-Educative Roles in Latin America and the United States / Shifra M. Goldman
A Perspective for a Study of Religious Dimensions in Chicano Experience: Bless Me, Ultima as a Religious Text / David Carrasco
Mexican American Home Altars: Toward Their Interpretation / Kay F. Turner
Self-Fashioning through Glamour and Punk in East Los Angeles: Patssi Valdez in Asco's Instant Mural and A La Mode / Marci R. McMahon
III. (Re)configuring Identities
Introduction / Chela Sandoval
Chicanas and El Movimiento / Adalijiza Sosa Riddell
Unraveling America's Hispanic Past: Internal Stratification and Class Boundaries / Ramon A. Gutierrez
Beyond Indifference and Antipathy: The Chicana Movement and Chicana Feminist Discourse / Denise A. Segura and Beatriz M. Pesquera
Chicana Identity Matters / Deena J. Gonzalez
Latino Performance and Identity / David Roman
"USA Is Trespassing in New Mexico": La Alianza Federal de Mercedes and the Subaltern Historiography of Indo-Hispano Mestizaje / Simon Ventura Trujillo
IV. Remapping the World
Introduction / Rafael Perez-Torres
Political Familism: Toward Sex-Role Equality
in Chicano Families / Maxine Baca Zinn
Chicano Critical Discourse: An Emerging Cultural Practice / Angie Chabram-Dernersesian
Mapping the Spanish Language along a Multiethnic and Multilingual Border / Rosaura Sanchez
The Folklore of the Freeway: Space, Culture, and Identity in Postwar Los Angeles / Eric Avila
Chicana/o Studies and Anthropology: The Dialogue That Never Was / Karen Mary Davalos
Toward a Mariposa Consciousness: Reimagining Queer Chicano and Latino Identities / Daniel Enrique Perez
V. Continuing to Push Boundaries
Introduction / Chon A. Noreiga
Illegal Status and Social Citizenship: Thoughts on Mexican Immigrants in a Postnational World / Adelaida R. Del Castillo
Gender, Order, and Femicide: Reading the Popular Culture of Murder in Cuidad Juarez / Steven S. Volk and Marian E. Schlotterbeck
"El destierro de los Chinos": Popular Perspectives on Chinese-Mexican Intermarriage in the Early Twentieth Century / Robert Chao Romero
Prothesis, Surrogation, and Relation in Arturo Islas's The Rain God / John Alba Cutler
Spatializing Sexuality in Jaime Hernandez's Locas / Jessica E. Jones
Contested Cowboys: Ethnic Mexican Charros and the Struggle for Suburban Public Space in 1970s Los Angeles / Laura R. Barraclough
The Necessary Theater of the Royal Chicano Air Force / Ella Maria Diaz
Contributors
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