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Mestizos come home!, making and claiming Mexican American identity, Robert Con Davis-Undiano

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-300) and index

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Mestizos come home!

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Robert Con Davis-Undiano

Chicana & Chicano visions of the Américas series, volume 19

making and claiming Mexican American identity

"Chronicles important ways Mexican Americans have changed American culture for the better since the 1960s including attitudes towards mestizo (mixed-race) identity and the creation of a new cultural 'voice,' debates over land policy, innovations in popular culture, the Mesoamerican view of the human body, and the rise of Chicano literature and Chicano Studies"-- Publisher information

Introduction: Mestizos, come home! -- Critiquing the Spanish Colonial Legacy. The Casta tradition and Mestizos in New Spain -- In search of Mestizo identity across the Americas -- Remapping the Mestizo Community. There's no place like Aztlán : land, the Southwest, and Rudolfo Anaya -- Remapping community : Cinco de Mayo, lowrider car culture, and the Day of the Dead -- Recovering the body : literature, painting, and sculpture -- The Literary Response. Tomás Rivera and the Chicano voice -- Write home! : Chicano literature, Chicano Studies, and Resolana -- Conclusion: A better future for America

Making and claiming Mexican American identity