The Emergence of Mexican America : : Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture / / John-Michael Rivera.

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• VerfasserIn: Rivera, John-Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Critical America ; 36
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Winner of the 2006 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary Studies, presented by the Western Literature AssociationIn The Emergence of Mexican America, John-Michael Rivera examines the cultural, political, and legal representations of Mexican Americans and the development of US capitalism and nationhood. Beginning with the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 and continuing through the period of mass repatriation of US Mexican laborers in 1939, Rivera examines both Mexican-American and Anglo-American cultural production in order to tease out the complexities of the so-called “Mexican question.” Using historical and archival materials, Rivera's wide-ranging objects of inquiry include fiction, non-fiction, essays, treaties, legal materials, political speeches, magazines, articles, cartoons, and advertisements created by both Mexicans and Anglo Americans. Engaging and methodologically venturesome, Rivera's study is a crucial contribution to Chicano/Latino Studies and fields of cultural studies, history, government, anthropology, and literary studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction “How Do You Make the Invisible, Visible?” Locating Stories of Mexican Peoplehood -- 1 Don Zavala Goes to Washington: Translating U.S. Democracy -- 2 Constituting Terra Incognita The “Mexican Question” in U.S. Print Culture -- 3 Embodying Manifest Destiny: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Color of Mexican Womanhood -- 4 Claiming Los Bilitos: Miguel Antonio Otero and the Fight for New Mexican Manhood -- 5 “Con su pluma en su mano” Américo Paredes and the Poetics of “Mexican American” Peoplehood -- Conclusion: Recovering La memoria: Locating the Recent Past -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author