The emergence of Mexican America

Rivera, John-Michael, 1969-

The emergence of Mexican America recovering stories of Mexican peoplehood in U.S. culture / [electronic resource] : John-Michael Rivera. - New York : New York University Press, c2006. - viii, 211 p. : ill., maps. - Critical America . - Critical America. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-203) and index.

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 : María 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" : Américo Paredes and the poetics of "Mexican-American" peoplehood -- Recovering la memoria : locating the recent past.


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2013.
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Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans--History.
Mexican Americans--Cultural assimilation.


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