Mestizo : the history, culture, and politics of the Mexican and the Chicano : the emerging Mestizo-Americans /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vento, Arnoldo C.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [1998]
Subjects:	Mexican Americans > History. Mestizos > United States > History. Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity. Mestizos > United States > Ethnic identity. Mexican Americans > Politics and government. Mestizos > United States > Politics and government. Mexicanos americanos > Historia. Mestizos > Estados Unidos > Historia. Mexicanos americanos > Identidad étnica. Mestizos > Estados Unidos > Identidad étnica. Mexicanos americanos > Política y gobierno. Mestizos > Estados Unidos > Política y gobierno. Geschichte. USA. Mestizen. Chicanos.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

pt. I. Roots, colonialism and conflict (300 A.D-1890)
ch. I. Pre-Columbian cultures of America
I. The classical period : the rise of great civilizations
(A) Introduction
(B) The urban civilization of Teotihuakan
(C) Cakaxtla & Xochikalko, the Mayan link
(D) Classic Veracruz
(E) Classic Monte Albán
(F) The classic collapse
II. The post-classic period : the Toltekah confederation
(A) The Northern nomads : the Teo-Chichimekahs
(B) Tollan and the Toltekahs
(C) The United States Southwest connection
(D) Late Zapotekan culture : Mitla
(E) The Purépecha : the Tarascans
II. The post-classic Renaissance : the confederation of Anauak
(A) Roots, early formation and nature of a people
B) The arrival to Chapultépek and the problems of settlement
(C) The founding of Metziko-Tenochtítlan
(D) The second epoch of formation : government and leadership
(E) Moktekuzoma Xokoyótzin : the invasion of Metziko Tenochtitlan
(F) The broken treaty of August 22, 1521 and the anatomy of at nation
(G) The end of high culture and the beginning of Western hegemony
(H) Aztekah education and the search for Neltilizltli and Cohuáyotl.
ch. II. Cultural dominance of Spanish colonialism & native cultural counter-hegemony
(A) European Medieval culture : church and state
(1) Church councils and the Romanization of the church
(2) The rise of the church to a temporal power
(3) Negative impact of Teutonic culture : Spain and Europe
(4) The Crusades and Reconquista
(5) Society in the Middle Ages
(6) The Spanish Medieval church and the Inquisition
(B) Spanish neo-feudalism : New Spain
(1) Spanish Medievalism in the Carribean [sic]
(2) Invasion of the mainland and censorship
(3) The Middle Ages in the Americas
(4) Native-American, Mestizo & Criollo : Western social & color prejudice
(5) Spanish didactic & religious mission : autocthonous cultural/religious genocide
(6) Change of arms : Criollo takeover and the contribution of neo-colonialism
(C) Aztec colonial myths : historical/religious bias misinterpretation
(1) Zenteotl or the one supreme force
(2) The colonial myth of hell as Mictlan
(3) The colonial myth of fatalism
(4) The colonial myth of polytheism
(5) The colonial myth of Ketzalkoatl as an anthropomorphic God
(6) The colonial myth of imperialism
(7) The colonial myth of slavery
(8) The colonial myth of cannibalism & human sacrifice
(9) The colonial myth of dipsomania
(10) The problem of using altered and biased post-conquest codices & chronicles
(11) The colonial myth of Machismo & the debased woman
(12) An autocthonous view of Aztec society.
ch. III. Mexican counter hegemony : autocriticism, the search for identity and the Chicano
(A) The Ateneo de la Juventud and Mexicanidad
(B) Mestizaje
(C) José Vasconcelos : Mestizaje as a developing human consciousness
(D) Antonio Caso : El Problema de México y la Ideología de México
(E) Samuel Ramos : El Perfil del Hombre y la Cultura
(F) The metaphysics of Vasconcelos : La Raza Cósmica, Indología
(G) Octavio Paz : El Laberinto de la Soledad
(H) José Iturriaga : "El Carácter del Mexicano"
(I) Rosario Castellanos, Leopoldo Zea and Emilio Uranga
(J) Contemporary analyses : Roger Batra, Sara Sefchovich
(K) Conclusions to the analysis of the Mexican character
The Chicano/Tejano/Mexican-American
(1) Chicano cultural background
(2) European racial legacy
(3) Socio-economic classifications
(4) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
(5) The Chicano movement
(6) Chicano characteristics
(8) Assimilation & imitation
(9) Conclusions to the analysis of the Chicano character
(10) The Mexican and Mexicanidad
(11) The Chicano/Chicana & Chicanidad
(12) The new Mestizajicanidad.
ch. IV. The clash of two cultures
(A) From English-American colonialism to XIX imperialism
(1) The background : English-American & Spanish colonialism
(2) Culture and the hegemonic process
(3) Religious intolerance, expansionism and exploitation
(4) Cultural/religious bias and colonial literature
(5) Attitudes towards Mexicans and Native-Americans
(6) Biased U.S. literature : the Spanish colonial connection
(B) XIX century invasion/conquest of Texas : cultural conflict and resistance
(1) Early political agenda for expansionism : from Benjamin Franklin to Stephen F. Austin
(2) Mexican Texas : demography and cultural distinctions
(3) U.S. coercion politics & the battle of the Alamo
(4) A Mexican account of the Alamo
(5) The policies of Polk and the provoked attack on Matamoros by Zachary Taylor
(C) Juan Nepomuceno Cortina : rebel for justice
(1) Frontier lawlessness and corrupt oligarchy
(2) Banditry or ethical defense
(3) Cortina the citizen and his proclamation
(4) Texas Rangers and vigilante reprisals
(5) Cortina the man
(D) U.S. political and territorial ambitions
(1) Polk's plan, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo & slavery
(2) Historical distortions and the land grab
(3) Expansionism & resistance : New Mexico
(4) Two societies in conflict in Arizona
(5) The final invasion/conquest California & the Californios.
pt. II. The XX century Mestizo/Chicano
ch. V. Mexican/Chicano adaptation, racism & resistance
(A) The background : 1890-1939
(1) Mexican labor and race relations
(2) El Plan de San Diego
(3) Texas Rangers & Army persecutions
(4) Magonista resistance
(5) Repatriation, segregation and power polities
(B) Mexican/Chicano resistance movements of the Southwest
(1) Mexican-American unions and mutual aid societies
(2) League of Latin-Americans (1927)
(3) Integration vs. assimilation
(4) Racism and Anglo social hierarchy
(5) Migration to the Midwest
(6) Sleepy Lagoon case and The Zoot Suit Riots
(7) The marginal world of the Pachuco
(8) Public racial discrimination in Texas
(C) Public education and political organization
(1) Méndez vs. the Wesminister School District
(2) Ethnocentrism and language discrimination
(3) Immigration, Texas legislature racism and the Texas Rangers
(4) The leadership : Canales, Perales, Castañeda, Sanchez
(5) Definitions of "the Mexican problem"
(6) G.I. Forum, La Raza Unida Party and M.A.L.D.F.
(7) Education in the eighties and the nineties.
ch. VI. Chicano mobilization & organization
(A) César Chávez
(B) Reies López Tijerina and the land grant question
(C) The Chicano movement : socio-political and academic impact
(D) Activism and the Cantos in the sixties and seventies
(E) Chicano activism and the crusade for justice : Rodolfo Corky González
(F) Etymology of "Chicano" and El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan
(G) Angel Gutiérrez and MAYO
(H) Crystal City and La Raza Unida.
ch. VII. Chicano academic, cultural and critical achievements
(A) Chicano studies
(1) Chicano studies programs
(2) Chicano student organizations
(3) Journals and small presses
(B) Flor Y Canto & Canto at Pueblo : poetry and art
(C) Ricardo Sánchez : liberationist and humanist poet
(D) Luis Valdez and Teatro Campesino
(E) Prose fiction : novel and short story.
ch. VIII. Cultural inheritance, identity and awareness
(A) Culture, folklore & language
(1) Southwestern Chicano dialects
(2) Raza humor
(3) Curanderismo
(4) Chicano/Tejano music
(5) Chicano cinema
(B) Chicanismo/Chicanidad : from pre-Columbian roots to Mestizajicanidad
(1) Origin & meaning of "Chicano" : philosophical & societal implications
(2) Pluralism & universality of Vasconcelos' La Raza Cósmica
(3) Chicano customs & celebrations : cholos, Hispanos, Latinos & Mestizo-Americans
(C) The Chicana/Latina : cultural inheritance, struggles & awareness
(1) Role of women in history : pre-Columbian models vs. Western models
(2) The contemporary Chicana/Latina : the new Mestiza-American
(3) Precursors of Mestiza feminism
(4) Anglo-American perceptions
(5) The Angel of Goliad & the Adelita from the valley
(6) Luisa Moreno, Malagram González, Dolores Huerta, Francisca Flores, Alicia Escalante : from the thirties to the sixties
(7) De Colores & Linda Morales Armas
(8) The seventies : Estela Portillo Trambley, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Evangelina Vigil, Bernice Zamora, Angela de Hoyos
(9) The eighties : Alma Villanueva, Pat Mora, Sandra Cisneros, Lucha Corpi, Roberta Fernández, Irene Beltrán Hernández
(10) The decolonization of the history of women.