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xi, 167 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture traces the development of Chicana/o literature and cultural production from the Spanish colonial period to the present. In doing so, it challenges us to look critically at how we simultaneously embody colonial constructs and challenge their legacies"--
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Cultural studies of the Americas volume 9
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266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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xi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Amid the controversy surrounding immigration and border control, the work of California cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz (b. 1964) has stood as an example of strident art from a Latino viewpoint. Of Mexican descent, Alcaraz fights for Latino rights through his creativity, drawing political commentary as well as underlining the ways Latinos confront discrimination in their daily lives. Through an analysis of Alcaraz's early editorial cartooning and his strips...
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xxi, 312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"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.
"Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has described U.S. and Latin...
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