Category Archives: English

With more than 600 full-color images, this book celebrates the art organizations that have promoted Mexican American art and served as art education centers for their communities. Their efforts have produced a significant body of collectible works that inspire through … Continue reading →

The result of years of careful preparation, this two-volume work covers the artistic production and biographies of nearly 200 individual artists from across the United States as well as Chicano/a artists residing in Mexico and elsewhere. This unique work was … Continue reading →

This beautifully produced coffee-table book showcases more than 120 works of Chicana and Chicano art and provides a good representation of the art movement for general readers as well as students. Created in part as a catalog for the 2004 … Continue reading →

In the mid-1960s, the charismatic Cesar Chavez led members of California’s La Causa movement in boycotting the grape harvest, and melon pickers in South Texas called a strike against growers, contesting unfair labor and wage practices in both states. In … Continue reading →

This is the new and fully updated edition of this classic work on the development of Chicano radicalism in America. “Youth, Identity, Power” is a unique exploration of the origins and development of Chicano radicalism in America. Carlos Munoz Jr, … Continue reading →

In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang warfare … Continue reading →

When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds … Continue reading →

First published in 1995, Postethnic America was widely hailed as a groundbreaking proposal for healing our nation’s ethnic divisions. David A. Hollinger, one of America’s foremost intellectual historians, argues for replacing the pluralist model of multiculturalism that is based on … Continue reading →

Praised as a splendid addition to the literature on the great wave of contemporary immigration from Mexico, The World of Mexican Migrants, by acclaimed author Judith Adler Hellman, provides a perspective on the migration issue that is rooted in the … Continue reading →

Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Américo Paredes (1915–1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. Paredes taught literature and anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin for decades, and his ethnographic and … Continue reading →