Mestizos come home! : making and claiming Mexican American identity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Davis, Robert Con, 1948- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2017]
Series:	Chicana & Chicano visions of the Américas ; v. 19.
Subjects:	Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity. Mestizos > United States > Ethnic identity. Mexican Americans > Social life and customs. Community life > United States. Mexican Americans > Intellectual life. American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism. United States > Ethnic relations. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Mestizos, come home!
Critiquing the Spanish Colonial Legacy. The Casta tradition and Mestizos in New Spain
In search of Mestizo identity across the Americas
Remapping the Mestizo Community. There's no place like Aztlán : land, the Southwest, and Rudolfo Anaya
Remapping community : Cinco de Mayo, lowrider car culture, and the Day of the Dead
Recovering the body : literature, painting, and sculpture
The Literary Response. Tomás Rivera and the Chicano voice
Write home! : Chicano literature, Chicano Studies, and Resolana
Conclusion: A better future for America.