Culture across borders
Subtitle: Mexican immigration & popular culture
By: edited by David R. Maciel and María Herrera-Sobek.
Contributors: Maciel, David.; Herrera-Sobek, María.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: 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
Description: Culture Across Borders is the first book-length study to analyze a wide range of cultural manifestations of the Mexican immigration experience, including art literature, cinema, corridos (folk songs), and humor. It shows how Mexican immigrants have been depicted in popular culture - both in Mexico and the United States - and how Mexican and Chicano/Chicana artists, writers, intellectuals, and others have used artistic means to protest the unjust treatment of immigrants by U.S. authorities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: culture across borders / David R. Maciel and María Herrera-Sobek; title: "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; title: Undocumented crossings: narratives of Mexican immigration to the United States / Alberto Ledesma; title: Telling images bracket the "broken-promise(d) land": the culture of immigration and the immigration of culture across borders / Victor Alejandro Sorell; title: The celluloid immigrant: the narrative films of Mexican immigration / David R. Maciel and María Rosa García-Acevedo; title: Jokelore, cultural differences, and linguistic dexterity: the construction of the Mexican immigrant in Chicano humor / José Reyna and María Herrera-Sobek; title: The corrido as hypertext: undocumented Mexican immigrant films and the Mexican/Chicano ballad / María Herrera-Sobek; title: Contributors.