Category Archives: Recent IAS Books

Blackwell, Maylei. ¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement. 2011

The first book-length study of women’s involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. … Continue reading

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Garcia, Alma, Mario Garcia (eds.). Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings. 1997

During the turbulent 1960s, Chicanas who funneled blood, sweat, and tears into Mexican American protest movements such as La Raza were often relegated to supporting the men who leapt to the ramparts. Stung by such sexual discrimination and disheartened by–or … Continue reading

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Sugg, Katherine. Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance. 2008

By rethinking contemporary debates regarding the politics of aesthetic forms, Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance explores how allegory can be used to resolve the “problem” of identity in both political theory and literary studies. Examining fiction and … Continue reading

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Adams, Rachel. Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America. 2009

North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. Nonetheless, the region shared by the United States and its closest neighbors, North America, is an intriguing frame for comparative American studies. Continental Divides … Continue reading

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Gardini, Gian Luca. The Origins of Mercosur: Democracy and Regionalization in South America. 2010

The processes of democratization and regionalization in South America ran parallel to one another between 1985 and 1991. However, the nature of this relationship is by no means clear. This book explores the diplomatic history of the formation of Mercosur … Continue reading

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Siemerling, Winfried, Sarah Philips Castell. Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations. 2010

In the last few decades, Canadian and Quebecois literatures have been catapulted onto the global stage, gaining international readership and recognition. “Canada and Its Americas” challenges the convention that study of this literature should be limited to its place within … Continue reading

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Rosales, F. Aturo. Chicano! the History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

Rosales offers a sorely needed chronicle of the fastest-growing so-called minority population in the U.S. He reaches back to the Mexican-American War, as a result of which Mexican territory was cut in half and tens of thousands of Mexicans became … Continue reading

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Beauchesne, Kim, Alessandra Santos (eds.). The Utopian Impulse in Latin America. 2011

An exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the … Continue reading

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