Culture across borders : Mexican immigration & popular culture / edited by David R. Maciel and María Herrera-Sobek

Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1998]
Copyright Date: ©1998
Physical Description: xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Additional Creators: Maciel, David and Herrera-Sobek, María

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Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: culture across borders / David R. Maciel and María Herrera-Sobek -- "What goes around, comes around": political practice and cultural response in the internationalization of Mexican labor, 1890-1997 / Juan Gómez-Quiñones and David R. Maciel -- Undocumented crossings: narratives of Mexican immigration to the United States / Alberto Ledesma -- Telling images bracket the "broken-promise(d) land": the culture of immigration and the immigration of culture across borders / Victor Alejandro Sorell -- The celluloid immigrant: the narrative films of Mexican immigration / David R. Maciel and María Rosa García-Acevedo -- Jokelore, cultural differences, and linguistic dexterity: the construction of the Mexican immigrant in Chicano humor / José R. Reyna and María Herrera-Sobek -- The corrido as hypertext: undocumented Mexican immigrant films and the Mexican/Chicano ballad / María Herrera-Sobek -- Contributors.

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0816518327 (acid-free, archival-quality paper)
0816518335 (pbk. : acid-free, archival-quality paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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