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Author Velez-Ibaņez, Carlos G., 1936-

Title Border visions : Mexican cultures of the Southwest United States / Carlos G. Velez-Ibaņez.

Imprint Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1996.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.86872 V543b    ---  Available
Description xii, 360 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-341) and index.
Contents The continuing process : an ethnobiography. Without borders, the original vision -- The American entrada : barrioization and the development of Mexican commodity identity -- Political process, cultural invention, and social frailty : road to discovery. The politics of survival and revival : the struggle for existence and cultural dignity, 1848--1994 -- Living in confianza and patriarchy : the cultural systems of U.S. Mexican households -- The distribution of sadness : poverty, crime, drugs, illness, and war -- So farewell hope and with hope farewell fear, coming full circle : finding a place and space. The search for meaning and space through literature. Making pictures : U.S. Mexican place and space in mural art -- Conclusions : unmasking borders of minds and method.
Subject Mexican Americans -- Southwest, New.
Mexican Americans -- Southwest, New -- Social conditions.
Mexican Americans -- Southwest, New -- Ethnic identity.
Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration.
Southwest, New -- Emigration and immigration.
ISBN 0816516847 (pbk.)
0816514224 (alk. paper)
Sudoc No. UA 5.2:B 56/3 azdocs

 
    
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