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Author:   Louis G. Mendoza
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9780292738836

ISBN 10:   0292738838
Pages:   311
Publication Date:   01 June 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: The Latinoization of the U.S. and ""Our"" National Culture One. Leaving: Home Is No Longer Home Gloria Caballero: Amherst, Massachussetts Luis: Northeastern U.S. Guillermo Vasa: New York, New York Fernando: Boise, Idaho Two. The Crucible of Change and Adaptation Adela Marmion: Tucson, Arizona Juan Marinez: East Lansing, Michigan Guadalupe Quinn: Eugene, Oregon, CAUSA de Oregon Victor Ochoa: San Diego, California Magda Iriarte: Hickory, North Carolina Alondra Espejel and Mariano Espinoza, St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network Three. An Emerging Sense of Mutuality John Jensen: Melrose, Minnesota John and Peggy Stokman: Melrose, Minnesota Ángel Gnzález: Iowa City, Iowa José Elizondo: West Liberty, Iowa Four. Confronting Threats to Community Raúl Raymundo: Chicago, Illinois, Resurrection Project Rogelio Núñez: Harlingen, Texas, Proyecto Libertad Yolanda Chávez Leyva: El Paso, Texas, University of Texas–El Paso Cecilia Brennan: San Diego, California Antonio Díaz, Oscar Grande, and Teresa Almaguer: San Francisco, California, People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights (PODER) Five. Asserting Rights José Ramón Sánchez: New York, New York, Long Island University Leticia Zavala: Dudley, North Carolina, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) Elizabeth García: Brownsville, Texas, Casa Digna Briana Stone, Gabby Garcia, Paulina Baca, and Valerie Noce: El Paso, Texas, Paso del Norte Civil Rights Project Mónica Hernández: San Ysidro, California, Casa Familiar Enrique Morones: San Diego, California, Border Angels Six. Internal Migration Humberto Fuentes: Nampa, Idaho Efrain and Francesca Marinez: East Lansing, Michigan Dina Montes: New York, New York Seven. Living in the Borderlands Means . . . Jesse and Lupe Vega: El Paso, Texas Carlos Marentes: El Paso, Texas, Centro de los Trabajadores Agrícolas Fronterizos Verónica Carbajal: El Paso, Texas, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid Ernesto Portillo: Tucson, Arizona, Arizona Daily Star Manuel Velez: San Diego, California, San Diego Mesa College Conclusion: Nuestra América Ahora: Meditations on Latinoization, Citizenship, and Belonging Notes Glossary Bibliography Index"

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Louis G. Mendoza is Associate Vice Provost in the Office for Equity and Diversity at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, where he is also Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano Studies. He is coeditor of Crossing Into America: The New Literature of Immigration and author of Historia: The Literary Making of Chicana and Chicano History.

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