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The Conquest of Mexico
500 Years of Reinventions
A valuable contribution to ongoing efforts to demythologize and properly memorialize the Spanish-Aztec War of 1519–21, this volume also aptly illustrates how we make history of the past and how that history-making shapes our present—and possibly our future.
Raza Schools
The Fight for Latino Educational Autonomy in a West Texas Borderlands Town
Telling the complex story of how territorial pride, race and racism, politics, economic pressures, local control, and the federal government collided in Del Rio, Raza Schools recovers a lost chapter in the history of educational civil rights—and in doing so, offers a more nuanced understanding of race relations, educational politics, and school activism in the US-Mexico borderlands.
Californio Portraits
Baja California's Vanishing Culture
This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. Californio Portraits combines history and sociology to provide an in-depth view of a culture that has managed to survive dramatic changes.
Return to Aztlan
Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México
Employing long-overlooked historical and anthropological evidence, Danna A. Levin Rojo reveals how ideas these natives held about their own past helped determine where Spanish explorers would go and what they would conquer in the northwest frontier of New Spain—present-day New Mexico and Arizona. Return to Aztlan thus remaps an extraordinary century during which, for the first time, Western minds were seduced by Native American historical memories.
In the Midst of Radicalism
Mexican American Moderates during the Chicano Movement, 1960–1978
In the Midst of Radicalism for the first time shows us these moderate Mexican American activists as they were, playing a critical role in the Chicano Movement while maintaining a long-standing tradition of pursuing social justice for their community.
Homeland
Ethnic Mexican Belonging since 1900
A transnational history that reveals how ideas move across borders and between communities, Homeland offers welcome insight into the defining and changing concept of belonging in relation to citizenship. In the process, the book marks another step in a promising new direction for Mexican American intellectual history.
Hero Street, U.S.A.
The Story of Little Mexico's Fallen Soldiers
Claro Solis wanted to win a gold star for his mother. He succeeded—as did seven other sons of “Little Mexico.”Second Street in Silvis, Illinois, was a poor neighborhood during the...
Weaving Chiapas
Maya Women’s Lives in a Changing World
This English-language edition features color photographs—published here for the first time—depicting many of the individual women and their stunning textiles. A new preface, chapter introductions, and a scholarly afterword frame the women’s narratives and place their accounts within cultural and historical context.
Listening to Rosita
The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955
In Listening to Rosita, Villarreal seeks answers by pursuing the story of a small group of Tejana singers and entrepreneurs in Corpus Christi, Houston, and San Antonio—the “Texas Triangle”—during the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately she recovers a social world and cultural landscape in central south Texas where Mexican American women negotiated the shifting boundaries of race and economics to assert a public presence.
Borderless
The Art of Luis Tapia
In this first publication devoted to Tapia’s artistic legacy, leading art historians, curators, and literary figures consider Tapia’s art as a visual touchstone for a tradition in transition, one that Tapia continues to hold to and break through.
The Conquest of Mexico
500 Years of Reinventions
A valuable contribution to ongoing efforts to demythologize and properly memorialize the Spanish-Aztec War of 1519–21, this volume also aptly illustrates how we make history of the past and how that history-making shapes our present—and possibly our future.
Raza Schools
The Fight for Latino Educational Autonomy in a West Texas Borderlands Town
Telling the complex story of how territorial pride, race and racism, politics, economic pressures, local control, and the federal government collided in Del Rio, Raza Schools recovers a lost chapter in the history of educational civil rights—and in doing so, offers a more nuanced understanding of race relations, educational politics, and school activism in the US-Mexico borderlands.
Californio Portraits
Baja California's Vanishing Culture
This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. Californio Portraits combines history and sociology to provide an in-depth view of a culture that has managed to survive dramatic changes.
Return to Aztlan
Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México
Employing long-overlooked historical and anthropological evidence, Danna A. Levin Rojo reveals how ideas these natives held about their own past helped determine where Spanish explorers would go and what they would conquer in the northwest frontier of New Spain—present-day New Mexico and Arizona. Return to Aztlan thus remaps an extraordinary century during which, for the first time, Western minds were seduced by Native American historical memories.
In the Midst of Radicalism
Mexican American Moderates during the Chicano Movement, 1960–1978
In the Midst of Radicalism for the first time shows us these moderate Mexican American activists as they were, playing a critical role in the Chicano Movement while maintaining a long-standing tradition of pursuing social justice for their community.
Homeland
Ethnic Mexican Belonging since 1900
A transnational history that reveals how ideas move across borders and between communities, Homeland offers welcome insight into the defining and changing concept of belonging in relation to citizenship. In the process, the book marks another step in a promising new direction for Mexican American intellectual history.
Hero Street, U.S.A.
The Story of Little Mexico's Fallen Soldiers
Claro Solis wanted to win a gold star for his mother. He succeeded—as did seven other sons of “Little Mexico.”Second Street in Silvis, Illinois, was a poor neighborhood during the...
Weaving Chiapas
Maya Women’s Lives in a Changing World
This English-language edition features color photographs—published here for the first time—depicting many of the individual women and their stunning textiles. A new preface, chapter introductions, and a scholarly afterword frame the women’s narratives and place their accounts within cultural and historical context.
Listening to Rosita
The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955
In Listening to Rosita, Villarreal seeks answers by pursuing the story of a small group of Tejana singers and entrepreneurs in Corpus Christi, Houston, and San Antonio—the “Texas Triangle”—during the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately she recovers a social world and cultural landscape in central south Texas where Mexican American women negotiated the shifting boundaries of race and economics to assert a public presence.
Borderless
The Art of Luis Tapia
In this first publication devoted to Tapia’s artistic legacy, leading art historians, curators, and literary figures consider Tapia’s art as a visual touchstone for a tradition in transition, one that Tapia continues to hold to and break through.