Culture across borders : Mexican immigration & popular culture / edited by David R. Maciel and María Herrera-Sobek.
Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1998.
ISBN: 0816518327 (acid-free, archival-quality paper)
0816518335 (pbk. : acid-free, archival-quality paper)
Description: xiv, 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject: Mexican Americans Social life and customs.
Mexican Americans Cultural assimilation.
Popular culture United States History 20th century.
Mexican Americans and mass media.
Mexico Emigration and immigration History 20th century.
United States Emigration and immigration History 20th century.
Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: culture across borders / David R. Maciel and María Herrera-Sobek -- "What goes around, comes around": political practice and cultural response in the internationalization of Mexican labor, 1890-1997 / Juan Gómez-Quiñones and David R. Maciel -- Undocumented crossings: narratives of Mexican immigration to the United States / Alberto Ledesma -- Telling images bracket the "broken-promise(d) land": the culture of immigration and the immigration of culture across borders / Victor Alejandro Sorell -- The celluloid immigrant: the narrative films of Mexican immigration / David R. Maciel and María Rosa García-Acevedo -- Jokelore, cultural differences, and linguistic dexterity: the construction of the Mexican immigrant in Chicano humor / José Reyna and María Herrera-Sobek -- The corrido as hypertext: undocumented Mexican immigrant films and the Mexican/Chicano ballad / María Herrera-Sobek -- Contributors.
