Las Obreras: Chicana Politics of Work and Family (Aztlan : a Journal of Chicano Studies, Volume 20, Numbers ... UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications, 2000 The fifteen essays collected here make up the revised edition of the best-selling volume 20 of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, a volume that has continued to be in strong demand in classrooms after almost a decade. With a revised introduction and four new essays, this book is at once a proven resource and a new guide toward an interdisciplinary understanding of the memory, voice, and lived ...             The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum: Critical and Ethnographic Practices2 reviews Angie Chabram-Dernersesian NYU Press, 2007 Great Historiography + Groundbreaking. One of the essentials in the field of Cultural Studies This is a great book and its format will really be pleasing for many. It's a series of conversations between all the big/key names in Chicana/o studies. It reads like you're part of this great cafe klatch. I didn't have a favourite section--it was all good. This book is great for more of a history ...             Building with Our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Studies1 review University of California Press, 1993 Quite well written with thorough support This is an interesting book describing the unique history of Chicana women. Although it contains many opinions, the diversity of the range of perspectives really enhances the support for the conclusions drawn. Moreover, it has sufficient studiy periods, ranging over three centuries. The book ...             Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature1 review Sonia Saldívar-Hull University of California Press, 2000 Well Done The author not only argues for feminism, but she does so in a unique manner, and innovative approach by arguing for feminism across borders. She compares and defines literary and national borders. This book is extremely thorough on all aspects of Chicana feminist writing available, by engaging ...             Chicana Critical Issues (Series in Chicana/Latina Studies) 3rd Woman Press, 1993 critical essays, w/large Chicana bibliography             Lourdes Portillo: The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films (Chicana Matters) University of Texas Press, 2001 "Like Portillo's films, this collection provides passionate critical responses that challenge convention on a global level. . . . The text successfully negotiates biography, theory, and production in a manner which enables readers to comprehend Portillo's aesthetic choices." —Alvina E. Quintana, author of Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo sees her ...             The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (Theories of Representation and Difference)4 reviews Emma Perez Indiana University Press, 1999 brilliant deconstruction of Chicano history + Essential reading for History, American Studies, Women's Studies, Chican@ Studies... Emma Perez has written a risky and provocative book that dazzingly deconstructs the normative categories undergirding Chicana/o and U.S. West history. By theorizing the decolonial imaginary and third space feminism (and drawing eclectically from feminist and critical theory) she creates a new and ...             meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (American Crossroads, 12)1 review Rosa Linda Fregoso University of California Press, 2003 A vital contribution to studies of the border, gender and the mass media The reader accompanies Fregoso on a passionate stream of close analysis and brilliant social critique. She reviews the ways that movies, fiction, and other cultural products continue to mark the lives of women on the border with oppresive myths of national and personal identity. Her cultural ...             Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism Duke University Press, 1997 Displacing Whiteness makes a unique contribution to the study of race dominance. Its theoretical innovations in the analysis of whiteness are integrated with careful, substantive explorations of whiteness on an international, multiracial, cross-class, and gendered terrain. Contributors localize whiteness, as well as explore its sociological, anthropological, literary, and political dimensions. ...             Mascaras (Series in Chicana/Latina Studies) Third Woman Press, 1997 anthology Latina writers incl Cisneros, Alvarez &c             La frontera/Borderlands14 reviews Gloria Anzalda Aunt Lute Books, 1999 Classic + One of the best books about chicano identity Not much can be said to some of the postings I see here--to those that suggest the third tier prose, those that call this work "racist," those that implore statements like "I hated it." These are the same people that vote for their own oppression, these are the very people that fancy their success ...             this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation5 reviews Routledge, 2002 One of Dr. Keatings students weighs in + A Very Powerful Book! + A Must Read!! + Review/summary of This Bridge + Multiracial feminism 20 years after "This Bridge Called My Back"             This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color3 reviews Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua Kitchen Table--Women of Color Press, 1984 Very important collection + A classic, ground-breaking feminist of color anthology! + Should be On Every Feminist Bookshelf, in Every Library. Oh my goodness!! This is an incredible ground-breaking book of awareness and consciousness. It was a must-read for anyone coming of age in the 1980's and it is still relevant today. I came on line to purchase it for a friend who had never seen it, and I am in shock that it is out of print, or even ...             Latino/a Popular Culture Michelle Habell-Pallan, Mary Romero NYU Press, 2002 Cover artwork by Diane Gamboa . Credit- Click here "With stunning, eloquent, and insightful essays Latino/a Popular Culture offers the best guide to the cultural production of the largest group of people of color in the United States. The essays broaden both our knowledge of Latino/a cultural production and challenge the traditional paradigms of cultural and ethnic studies doing so ...             Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture Michelle Habell-Pallan NYU Press, 2005 View the Table of Contents . Read the Introduction . Awarded Honorable Mention for the 2005 MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies. “ Loca Motion is a work of intelligent exuberance. Michelle Habell-Pallán has the eyes, ears, and heart to read popular performance, culture, and music as the new archives of Chicana and Latina ...             Biography - Anzaldua, Gloria (1942-2004): An article from: Contemporary Authors Gale Reference Team Thomson Gale, 2004 This digital document, covering the life and work of Gloria Anzaldua, is an entry from Contemporary Authors , a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1819 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information: Place and date ...             Moving from the Margins: A Chicana Voice on Public Policy de la T Adela University of Arizona Press, 2002 Immigration reform. Bilingual education. Affirmative action. Such issues trigger knee-jerk reactions from many people, and in California those reactions are likely to fall along strict ethnic lines. A white majority has long called the shots in voter initiatives, but with Mexican Americans becoming the majority population in southern California, their views on these matters can no longer be ...             The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader2 reviews Angie Chabram-Dernersesian Routledge, 2006 KUDOS + BRILLIANT AND PERSUASIVE!!! EVERY CULTURAL STUDIES SCHOLAR SHOULD READ IT Kudos to Chabram-Dernersesian. I strongly recommend this book . Definitely a page turner. Splendid alternative to most accounts of American & British cultural studies. First of its kind! Book offers valuable insights into the field and supplies readers with foundational writings and debates. ...             The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture Rosa Linda Fregoso University of Minnesota Press, 1993             Estados Unidos: el "apartheid" literario: Sandra Cisneros, la escritora chicana más popular, expresa sin ... Sanjuana Martínez CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V., 2003 This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on June 15, 2003. The length of the article is 2190 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. ...