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  • Inventing the Fiesta City

    Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio

    by Laura Hernández-Ehrisman ...
    Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 and through the twentieth century expanded from a single parade to over two hundred events spanning a ten-day period. Laura Hernández-Ehrisman examines Fiesta's development as part of San Antonio's culture of power relations between men and women, Anglos and Mexicanos.In some ways Fiesta resembles hundreds of urban celebrations across the country, but San Antonio ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Duchess of Angus

    by Margaret Brown Kilik, Char Miller ...
    Found novel with autobiographical foundation; attic discovery; known secret within family that she wrote; a woman who hid these parts of herselfFeatures themes of sexual assault; sexually promiscuous charactersSnapshot of WW2 American Southwest/ San Antonio/ TexasHighlights sexuality and race dynamics in the 1940sWW2 military side-focus *When twenty-year-old Jane Davis returns home to the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Southern Heritage on Display

    Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism

    by Celeste Ray, Melissa Schrift, Helen Regis, Kathryn VanSpanckeren, Gwen Kennedy Neville, Susan Emley Keefe, Paul Monaghan, Joan Flocks, Laura Ehrisman, Steven Hoelscher0, Clyde Ellis1 ...
    How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American SouthW. J. Cash's 1941 observation that “there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them” is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its “lost cause” tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • El Norte

    The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

    by Carrie Gibson ...
    A sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire's Crossroads.Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming Mexican American

    Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945

    by George J. Sanchez ...
    Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the largest immigrant group to that city. By focusing on Mexican immigrants to Los Angeles from 1900 to 1945, George J. Sánchez explores the process by ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Recovering History, Constructing Race

    The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans

    by Martha Menchaca ...
    "An unprecedented tour de force . . . [A] sweeping historical overview and interpretation of the racial formation and racial history of Mexican Americans." —Antonia I. Castañeda, Associate Professor of History, St. Mary's UniversityWinner, A Choice Outstanding Academic BookThe history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races—Indian, White, and Black. This racial history ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Out of the Shadows

    Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

    by Vicki L. Ruiz ...
    From Out of the Shadows was the first full study of Mexican-American women in the twentieth century. Beginning with the first wave of Mexican women crossing the border early in the century, historian Vicki L. Ruiz reveals the struggles they have faced and the communities they have built. In a narrative enhanced by interviews and personal stories, she shows how from labor camps, boxcar settlements, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds

    Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America

    by Gregory Rodriguez ...
    An unprecedented account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican-Americans will have on the collective character of our nation.In considering the largest immigrant group in American history, Gregory Rodriguez examines the complexities of its heritage and of the racial and cultural synthesis--mestizaje--that has defined the Mexican people since the Spanish conquest in the ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • The Blood of Guatemala

    A History of Race and Nation

    by Greg Grandin, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Irene Silverblatt ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The Blood of Guatemala Greg Grandin locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence within the social ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • San Miguel de Allende

    Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site

    by Lisa Pinley Covert ...
    Series series The Mexican Experience
    Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mexico, discovered that its “timeless” quality could provide a way forward. While other Mexican towns pursued policies of industrialization, San Miguel—on the economic, political, and cultural margins of revolutionary Mexico—worked to demonstrate that it ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • La Calle

    Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City

    by Lydia R. Otero ...
    On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical, predominantly Mexican American heart of the city, an area most called “la calle.” Here, amid small ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Porous Borders

    Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    by Julian Lim ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    With the railroad’s arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors rushed to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a booming international hub of economic and human activity. Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African American migration, Julian Lim presents a fresh study of the multiracial intersections of the borderlands, where diverse peoples ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD