A promising problem : the new Chicana/o history / edited by Carlos Kevin Blanton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blanton, Carlos Kevin, 1970- editor.

Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Historiography.

Mexican Americans--Social conditions.

Mexican Americans--Study and teaching--History.

Mexican Americans--Study and teaching.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.

Summary:

Chicana/o history has reached an intriguing juncture. While academic and intellectual studies are embracing new, highly nuanced perspectives on race, class, gender, education, identity, and community, the field itself continues to be viewed as a battleground, subject to attacks from outside academia by those who claim that the discipline promotes racial hatred and anti-Americanism. Against a backdrop of deportations and voter suppression targeting Latinos, A Promising Problem presents the optimistic voices of scholars who call for sophisticated solutions while embracing transnationalism and the reality of multiple, overlapping identities. Showcasing a variety of new directions, this anthology spans topics such as growth and reassessment in Chicana/o history manifested in a disruption of nationalism and geographic essentialism, the impact of legal history, interracial relations and the experiences of Latino subpopulations in the US South, race and the politics of religious history, transborder feminism in the early twentieth century, and aspirations for a field that increasingly demonstrates the relational dynamics of cultural production. As they reflect on the state of their field, the contributors offer significant insights into sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, education, and literature, while tracing the history of activism throughout the last century and debating the very concepts of "Chicano" and "Chicano history." Although the political landscape is fraught with closed-off rhetoric, A Promising Problem encourages diversity of thought and opens the possibilities of historical imagination. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Looking In while Stepping Out: Growth, Reassessment, and the Promising Problem of the New Chicana/o History / Carlos Kevin Blanton Blanton, Carlos Kevin 1

2 The Accidental Historian; or, How I Found My Groove in Legal History / Michael A. Olivas Olivas, Michael A. 33

3 Moving beyond Aztlán: Disrupting Nationalism and Geographic Essentialism in Chicana/o History / Lilia Fernández Fernández, Lilia 59

4 Chicana/o History as Southern History: Race, Place, and the US South / Perla M. Guerrero Guerrero, Perla M. 83

5 Sacred Spaces: Race, Resistance, and the Politics of Chicana/o and Latina/o Religious History / Felipe Hinojosa Hinojosa, Felipe 111

6 Chicanas in the US-Mexican Borderlands: Transborder Conversations of Feminism and Anarchism, 1905-1938 / Sonia Hernández Hernández, Sonia 135

7 Eastside Imaginaries: Toward a Relational and Transnational Chicana/o Cultural History / Luis Alvarez Alvarez, Luis 161.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

ISBN:

9781477309032

9781477308967

1477308962

1477309039

OCLC:

921310733

Publisher Number:

99966931506