Mexican American Studies & Research Center Publications

Issues of
Perspectives In Mexican American Studies

Volume 7 / 2000

Introduction

Armando Solórzano and Jorge Iber: Digging the "Richest Hole on Earth": The Hispanic Miners of Utah, 1912-1945

John Hardisty: El Laberinto de la Comunidad: A View of Rural Mexico

Armando Navarro: The Cucamonga Experiment: A Struggle for Community Control and Self-Determination

Elsa O. Valdez: Political Activism, Ethnic Identity, and Regional Differences Among Chicano and Latino College Students in Southern California and Northern New Mexico

Raymond V. Padilla: Chicano Pedagogy: Confluence, Knowledge, and Transformation

Anne Fairbrother: Mexicans in New Mexico: Deconstructing the Tri-Cultural Trope

Richard Santillán: Mexican Baseball Teams in the Midwest, 1916-1965: The Politics of Cultural Survival and Civil Rights

Volume 6

"Mexican Americans in the 1990s: Politics, Policies, and Perceptions"

Introduction 

Ignacio M. García: Constructing the Chicano Movement: Synthesis of a Militant Ethos

Daniél Estrada & Richard Santillán: Chicanos in the Northwest and the Midwest United States: A History of Cultural and Political Commonality

 

Volume 5

"Mexican American Women: Changing Images"

Introduction

Cythia E. Orozco: Beyond Machismo, La Familia, and Ladies Auxiliaries: A Historiography of Mexican-Origin Women's Participation in Voluntary Associations and Politics in the United States, 1870-1990

 

Gilberto García: Beyond the Adelita Image: Women Scholars in the National Association for Chicano Studies, 1972-1992

 

Yolanda Chávez Leyva: "Faithful Hard-Working Mexican Hands": Mexicana Workers During the Great Depression

 

Ricard Santillán: Midwestern Mexican American Women and the Struggle for Gender Equality: A Historical Overview, 1920s-1960s

 

María Ochoa: Cooperative Re/Weavings: Artistic Expression and Economic Development in a Northern New Mexican Village

 

María Cotera: Deconstructing the Corrido Hero: Caballero and Its Gendered Critique of Nationalist Discourse

 

Isidro D. Ortiz: The Reguarders Thesis and Latina Elites: A Case Study

Volume 4

"Emerging Themes in Mexican American Research"

Introduction

Richard Griswold de Castillo: Chicano Historical Discourse: An Overview and Evaluation of the 1980s

 

Jorge Hernandez-Fujigaki: The Impact of Seniority Principles on the Status of Mexican Steelworkers in the Midwest: Historical Perspectives

 

Devon Peña, Rubén Martinez, and Louis McFarland: Rural Chicana/o Communities and the Environment: An Attitudinal Survey of Residents of Costilla County, Colorado

 

Christine Marín: Mexican Americans on the Home Front: Community Organizations in Arizona During World War II

 

Alberto L. Pulido: Mexican American Catholicism in the Southwest: The Transformation of a Popular Religion

 

Volume 3

 "Community, Identity and Education"

Introduction

Ralph Cintron: Divided, Yet a City: A Brief History

 

Irene Campos Carr: Mexican Workers in Aurora: The Oral History of Three Immigration Waves, 1924-1990

 

June Webb-Vignery: A Grande Dame Stripped of Her Jewels: The Last Days of Jacome's Department Store

 

David L. Torres and Melissa Amado: The Quest for Power: Hispanic Collective Action in Frontier Arizona

 

Sylvia Rodríguez: The Hispano Homeland Debate Revisited

 

Francisco H. Vázquez: Chicanology: A Postmodern Analysis of Meshicano Discourse

 

Roseann Dueñas González, Victoria F. Vásquez and John Bichsel: Language Rights and the Mexican Americans: Much Ado About Nothing

 

Mary A. Alexander and Jacqueline Blank Sherman: Factors Related to Obesity in Mexican American School Children

 

David J. León and Dan McNeill: A Precursor to Affirmative Action: Californios and Mexicans in the University of California, 1870-72

Volume 2

"Mexicans in the Midwest"

Introduction

Dennis Nodín Valdés: The New Northern Borderlands: An Overview of Midwestern Chicano History

 

Michael M. Smith: Mexicans in Kansas City: The First Generation, 1900-1920

 

F. Arturo Rosales: Mexicans, Interethnic Violence, and Crime in the Chicago Area During the 1920s and 1930s: The Struggle to Achieve Ethnic Consciousness

 

George Edson: Mexicans in the North Central States

 

Richard Santillán: Rosita and the Riveter: Midwest Mexican American Women During World War II, 1941-1945

 

Navor Rodriguez: Sintesis Historica de la Colonia Mexicana de Joliet, Ill., U.S.A.

 

Juan R. García: Select Bibliography on Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the Midwest

Volume 1

"Readings in Southwestern Folklore" An Anthology

Arthur L. Campa: Spanish Traditional Tales in the Southwest

 

Betty Leddy: La Llorona in Southern Arizona

 

T.M. Pearce: The New Mexican "Shepards' Play"

 

José R. Reyna: Notes on Tejano Music

 

Rubén Cobos: New Mexican Spanish Proverbs

 

Aurelio M. Espinosa: California Spanish Folklore Riddles

 

Rubén Cobos: The New Mexican Game of Valse Chiquiao

 

Ruth Dodson: The Life of Don Pedro Jaramillo: Benefactor of Humanity

 

Rafael Jesus González: "Guess How Doughnuts Are Made": Verbal and Nonverbal Aspects of the Panadero and His Stereotype

 

José E. Limón: Agringado Joking in Texas Mexican Society

 

Rafaela Castro: Mexican Women's Sexual Jokes

 

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