Machine generated contents note: Ends of Assimilation -- Disjunctive Histories -- Assimilation as Ideology -- The Formation of Chicano/a Literature -- 1.Becoming Mexican-American Literature -- The Mexican-American Generation -- "The First Mexican-American" -- Pocho's Racial Boundaries -- Nation Time(s) in George Washington Gomez -- Gendered Assimilation in Caballero -- Chicano/a Politics of Reception -- 2.Quinto Sol, Chicano/a Literature, and the Long March Through Institutions -- Literature, Cultural Capital, Universities -- Assimilation Sociology and Structural Inequality -- Quinto Sol Literature and Chicano/a Cultural Nationalism -- Literary Discourse in Estampas del Valle -- Rethinking the University in Rain of Scorpions -- 3.Cultural Capital and the Singularity of Literature in Hunger of Memory and The Rain God -- "Two Strong Men" -- Hunger of Memory's Symbolic Capital -- Masculine Alienation in The Rain God -- Neoliberal Assimilation -- Transnational Sympathies -- 4.Lyric Subjects, Cultures of Poverty, and Sandra Cisneros's Wicked Wicked Ways -- Feminist Boundary Crossing -- "No Adelita nor Malintzin" -- Cultures of Poverty -- Recovering Mango Street's Lyric Subjects -- "The Big Rock Comes In" -- Cisneros, Brooks, and "Bad" Women -- "My Jewels, My Colicky Kids" -- 5.Segmented Assimilation and Jimmy Santiago Baca's Prison Counterpublics -- Segmentation versus Boundary Crossing -- Segmented Assimilation in Martin -- Rereading Baca's Prison Poetics -- Poetic Counterpublics -- "The Poems are Signs that Tell Us Things" -- 6.Disappeared Men: Chicano/a Authenticity and the American War in Viet Nam -- Remembering Viet Nam, Remembering the Movement -- "The Buzz of the Reel" -- Gods Go Begging and the Coloniality of Power -- Border Thinking in Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility -- Besieged Authenticities in Their Dogs Came With Them -- Disappeared Men -- Conclusion -- Assimilation "Is Now Condemned" -- What Was Chicano/a Literature?.
