The emergence of Mexican America : recovering stories of Mexican peoplehood in U.S. culture / John-Michael Rivera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivera, John-Michael, 1969-

Series:

Critical America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--History.

History.

Mexican Americans--Cultural assimilation.

Physical Description:

viii, 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2006]

Summary:

In The Emergence of Mexican America, John-Michael Rivera examines the cultural, political, and legal representations of Mexican Americans and the development of U.S. capitalism and nationhood. Beginning with the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 and continuing through the period of mass repatriation of U.S. 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 "Mexican question." Using historical and archival materials, Rivera's wide-ranging objects of inquiry include fiction, non-fiction, essays, treaties, legal materials, political speeches, magazines, articles, cartoons, and advertisements created by both Mexicans and Anglo Americans. Engaging and methodologically venturesome, Rivera's study is a crucial contribution to Chicano/Latino Studies and fields of cultural studies, history, government, anthropology, and literary studies.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index.

ISBN:

0814775578

0814775586

OCLC:

62697069

Publisher Number:

9780814775578

9780814775585