Decolonial Voices

Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century

Bibliographic Data

ID19894406
AuthorsArturo J Aldama, Arturo Aldama (corresponding author), Naomi Helena Quiñonez
Year2002
Pages413
Publication date2002-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDecolonial voices (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/1491.0
OpenAlexW4409447192
Open LibraryOL3949104M
ISBN9780253340146
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Aldama (Arizona State Univ.) and Quiñones (Quinones) (California State Univ., Fullerton) have assembled a remarkable range of essays on topics ranging from dresses and body art, film, popular music (including Chicano rap), and literary works to race, nationalism, and gender. The situation of undocumented workers gets full attention. The collection is especially strong on Chicana issues, redressing the male-centered atmosphere of the early Chicano movement. The level of the writing is high, though a few of the essays are sodden with jargon. The editors provide no overall bibliography, but most of the essays have lengthy bibliographies of their own. The index is unusually detailed, which is very helpful with a wide-ranging collection like this one. The use of illustrations where needed, as in the treatment of film and body art, is a bonus. This essential work cuts across disciplinary boundaries and illuminates many aspects of contemporary Chicana/o life. The work closest to it in spirit is Criticism in the Borderlands, ed. by Héctor (Hector) Calderón (Calderon) and José (Jose) David Saldívar (Saldivar) (CH, Jun'92), though Decolonial Voices gives more attention to popular culture. All collections

Sociology · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Race, History, and American Society · Américains d'origine mexicaine · American literature · Anthropology · Arts américains (mexicains) · Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine · Civilization · Cultural · Décolonisation · Decolonization · Discrimination & Race Relations · Essays · Étude et enseignement · Intellectual life · Kultursoziologie · Literatur · Littérature américaine · Mexicaanse Amerikanen · Mexican american art · Mexican American arts · Mexican American authors · Mexican Americans · Mexican-American Border Region · Minority Studies · Postcolonialism · Postcolonialisme · Postkolonialismus · Social conditions · Social Science · Study and teaching · united states · Vie intellectuelle

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