The Emergence of Mexican America : : Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture /

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

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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 capita...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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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
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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

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