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Author Rivera, John-Michael, 1969-

Title The emergence of Mexican America [electronic resource] : recovering stories of Mexican peoplehood in U.S. culture / John-Michael Rivera.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description viii, 211 p. : ill., maps.
Series Critical America
Critical America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-203) and index.
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 : Maria 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" : Americo Paredes and the poetics of "Mexican-American" peoplehood -- Recovering la memoria : locating the recent past.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans -- History.
Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0814775578 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814775586 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814775578
9780814775585

 
    
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