Table Of ContentPreface 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 Index
Synopsis"The Chicano Studies Reader," the best-selling anthology of writings from "Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies," has been newly expanded with essays drawn from the past five years of publication. These essays update each of the thematic sections of the second edition: Decolonizing the Territory, Performing Politics, Configuring Identities, Remapping the World, and Continuing to Push Boundaries. A revised introduction by the volume's editors precedes each section and offers analysis and contextualization. This third edition of the "Reader" documents the foundation of Chicano studies, testifies to its broad disciplinary range, and explores its continuing development., The Chicano Studies Reader , the best-selling anthology of writings from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies , has been newly expanded with essays drawn from the past five years of publication. These essays update each of the thematic sections of the second edition: Decolonizing the Territory, Performing Politics, Configuring Identities, Remapping the World, and Continuing to Push Boundaries. A revised introduction by the volume's editors precedes each section and offers analysis and contextualization. This third edition documents the foundation of Chicano studies, testifies to its broad disciplinary range, and explores its continuing development., The Chicano Studies Reader , the best-selling anthology of writings from Aztl n: A Journal of Chicano Studies , has been newly expanded with essays drawn from the past five years of publication. These essays update each of the thematic sections of the second edition: Decolonizing the Territory, Performing Politics, Configuring Identities, Remapping the World, and Continuing to Push Boundaries. A revised introduction by the volume's editors precedes each section and offers analysis and contextualization. This third edition documents the foundation of Chicano studies, testifies to its broad disciplinary range, and explores its continuing development.