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Corazón Abierto : Mexican American Voices in Texas Music.
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ISBN: 9781623499037 1623499038 9781623499020 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York : Texas A&M University Press,

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"Corazón abierto: Mexican American voices in Texas music provides a wide view of the myriad contributions Mexican American artists have made to music in Texas and the United States. Based on interviews with longtime stalwarts of Mexican American music -- Flaco Jimenez, Tish Hinojosa, Ernie Durawa, Rosie Flores, and others -- and also conversations with newer voices like Lesly Reynaga, Marisa Rose Mejia, Josh Baca, and many more, Kathleen Hudson allows the musicians to tell their own stories in a unique and personal way. As the artists reveal in their free-ranging discussions with Hudson, their influences go far beyond traditionally Mexican genres like conjunto, norteño, and Tejano to extend into rock, jazz, country-western, zydeco, and many other styles. Hudson's survey also includes essays, poetry, and other creative works by Dagoberto Gilb, Sandra Cisneros, and others, but the core of the book consists of what she describes as 'a collection of voices from different locations in Texas. . . . Some represent voices from the edge, while others give us a view from the center.' Weaving together a tapestry that combines 'family, borders, creativity, music, food, and community,' the book presents an image as varied and difficult to define as the musicians themselves. By sharing the artists' accounts of their influences, their experiences, their family stories, and their musical and cultural journeys, Corazón abierto reminds us that borders can be gateways, that differences enrich, rather than isolate"--

Labor rights are civil rights : Mexican American workers in twentieth-century America
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ISBN: 0691134022 1299988091 069111546X 1400849284 9781400849284 9780691134024 9780691115467 Year: 2005 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement in twentieth-century America. Absorbing and meticulously researched, Labor Rights Are Civil Rights paints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930's to the postwar era. Drawing on extensive archival research, Vargas focuses on the large Mexican American communities in Texas, Colorado, and California. As he explains, the Great Depression heightened the struggles of Spanish speaking blue-collar workers, and employers began to define citizenship to exclude Mexicans from political rights and erect barriers to resistance. Mexican Americans faced hostility and repatriation. The mounting strife resulted in strikes by Mexican fruit and vegetable farmers. This collective action, combined with involvement in the Communist party, led Mexican workers to unionize. Vargas carefully illustrates how union mobilization in agriculture, tobacco, garment, and other industries became an important vehicle for achieving Mexican American labor and civil rights. He details how interracial unionism proved successful in cross-border alliances, in fighting discriminatory hiring practices, in building local unions, in mobilizing against fascism and in fighting brutal racism. No longer willing to accept their inferior status, a rising Mexican American grassroots movement would utilize direct action to achieve equality.


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With a book in their hands : Chicano/a readers and readerships across the centuries
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ISBN: 0826354777 9780826354778 9780826354761 0826354769 1306797403 Year: 2014 Publisher: Albuquerque, New Mexico : University of New Mexico Press,

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In this collection, Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez gathers diverse and passionate accounts of reading drawn from several research projects aimed at documenting Chicana and Chicano reading practices and experiences.


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What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth : A Memoir of Brotherhood
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ISBN: 0299316998 029931698X 0299316904 Year: 2018 Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press,

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"Burdened by poverty, illiteracy, and vulnerability as Mexican immigrants to California's Coachella Valley, three generations of González men turn to vices or withdraw into depression. As brothers Rigoberto and Alex grow to manhood, they are haunted by the traumas of their mother's early death, their lonely youth, their father's desertion, and their grandfather's invective. Rigoberto's success in escaping--first to college and then by becoming a writer--is blighted by his struggles with alcohol and abusive relationships, while Alex contends with difficult family relations, his own rocky marriage, and fatherhood. Descending into a dark emotional space that compromises their mental and physical health, the brothers eventually find hope in aiding each other"--Dust jacket flap.


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Intimate migrations : gender, family, and illegality among transnational Mexicans
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ISBN: 0814789862 0814789854 9780814789858 9780814789865 0814789838 9780814789834 9780814789834 147988555X Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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In her research with transnational Mexicans, Deborah A. Boehm has often asked individuals: if there were no barriers to your movement between Mexico and the United States, where would you choose to live? Almost always, they desire the freedom to “come and go.” Yet the barriers preventing such movement are many. Because of the United States’ rigid immigration policies, Mexican immigrants often find themselves living long distances from family members and unable to easily cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Transnational Mexicans experience what Boehm calls “intimate migrations,” flows that both shape and are structured by gendered and familial actions and interactions, but are always defined by the presence of the U.S. state. Intimate Migrations is based on over a decade of ethnographic research, focusing on Mexican immigrants with ties to a small, rural community in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí and several states in the U.S. West. By showing how intimate relations direct migration, and by looking at kin and gender relationships through the lens of illegality, Boehm sheds new light on the study of gender and kinship, as well as understandings of the state and transnational migration.

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Undocumented immigrants --- Immigrant families --- Mexican American families. --- Sex role --- Transnationalism. --- Immigrants --- Mexican Americans --- Mexicans --- Families of emigrants --- Families --- Families, Mexican American --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations --- Social conditions. --- Mexico --- United States --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- Illegal aliens --- Aliens --- Enemy aliens --- Expatriates --- Foreign population --- Foreign residents --- Foreigners --- Illegal immigrants --- Non-citizens --- Noncitizens --- Resident aliens --- Unauthorized immigrants --- Undocumented aliens --- Unnaturalized foreign residents --- Persons --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Illegal immigration. --- Children of illegal aliens --- Illegal alien children --- Irregular migration --- Unauthorized immigration --- Undocumented immigration --- Women illegal aliens --- Human smuggling --- Noncitizen detention centers --- Ethnology --- Mexicains --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Immigrés --- Transnationalisme --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Immigrés clandestins --- Etats-Unis --- Mexique --- États-Unis --- Conditions sociales --- Émigration et immigration --- Aspect social


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Chicano-Latino law review.
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ISSN: 21697736 10618899 Year: 1991 Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Chicano-Latino Law Review, School of Law, University of California at Los Angeles

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Law --- Mexican Americans --- Hispanic Americans --- Droit --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Américains d'origine latino-américaine --- Law. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- California. --- Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies. --- Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Hispanics (United States) --- Latino Americans --- Latinos (United States) --- Spanish Americans in the United States --- Spanish-speaking people (United States) --- Spanish-surnamed people (United States) --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Alta California --- CA --- Cal. --- Cali. --- CF --- Chia-chou --- Departamento de Californias --- Kʻaellipʻonia --- Kʻaellipʻonia-ju --- Kʻaellipʻoniaju --- Kalifornii --- Kalifornii︠a︡ --- Kalifornija --- Ḳalifornyah --- Ḳalifornye --- Kālīfūrniyā --- Kaliphornia --- Karapōnia --- Kariforunia --- Kariforunia-shū --- Medinat Ḳalifornyah --- Politeia tēs Kaliphornias --- Provincia de Californias --- Shtat Kalifornii︠a︡ --- State of California --- Upper California --- Américains d'origine mexicaine --- Américains d'origine latino-américaine --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Ethnology --- Latin Americans --- Spanish Americans (Latin America) --- Regions --- Alta California (Province) --- Kalifornii͡ --- Kālīfūrniy --- Kariforunia-sh --- Shtat Kalifornii͡ --- Latinxs --- Californias (Province) --- California --- Domicile and Immigration Laws --- General and Others --- Policies --- Regional and International Law

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