The emergence of Mexican America
Subtitle: recovering stories of Mexican peoplehood in U.S. democratic culture
By: John-Michael Rivera.
Series: Critical America
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780814775578; 9780814775585
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity; Mexican Americans -- History; Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How do you make the invisible, visible? : locating stories of Mexican peoplehood; title: Don Zavala goes to Washington : translating US democracy; title: The "Mexican question" in  US print culture; title: Embodying manifest destiny : María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the color of Mexican womanhood; title: Claiming los bilitos : Miguel Antonio Otero and the fight for New Mexican manhood; title: Con su pluma en su mano : Américo Paredes and the poetics of "Mexican-American" peoplehood; title: Recovering la memoria : locating the recent past.