Culture across borders : Mexican immigration & popular culture / edited by David R. Maciel and María Herrera-Sobek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maciel, David (Professor emeritus), editor.

Herrera-Sobek, María, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Social life and customs.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Cultural assimilation.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Mexico.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

United States.

Mexican Americans and mass media.

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1998]

Summary:

Culture Across Borders is the first book-length study to analyze a wide range of cultural manifestations of the Mexican immigration experience, including art literature, cinema, corridos (folk songs), and humor. It shows how Mexican immigrants have been depicted in popular culture - both in Mexico and the United States - and how Mexican and Chicano/Chicana artists, writers, intellectuals, and others have used artistic means to protest the unjust treatment of immigrants by U.S. authorities.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: culture across borders / David R. Maciel and María Herrera-Sobek

"What goes around, comes around": political practice and cultural response in the internationalization of Mexican labor, 1890-1997 / Juan Gómez-Quiñones and David R. Maciel

Undocumented crossings: narratives of Mexican immigration to the United States / Alberto Ledesma

Telling images bracket the "broken-promise(d) land": the culture of immigration and the immigration of culture across borders / Victor Alejandro Sorell

The celluloid immigrant: the narrative films of Mexican immigration / David R. Maciel and María Rosa García-Acevedo

Jokelore, cultural differences, and linguistic dexterity: the construction of the Mexican immigrant in Chicano humor / José Reyna and María Herrera-Sobek

The corrido as hypertext: undocumented Mexican immigrant films and the Mexican/Chicano ballad / María Herrera-Sobek

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Culture across borders.

ISBN:

0816518335

9780816518333

0816518327

9780816518326

OCLC:

37742213