Chicana traditions
Subtitle: continuity and change
By: edited by Norma E. Cantú and Olga Nájera-Ramírez.
Contributors: Cantú, Norma Elia, 1947-; Nájera-Ramírez, Olga.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Mexican American women -- Social life and customs; Mexican American women -- Intellectual life; Mexican American arts; Mexican American women -- Folklore; Feminism -- United States
Genres: Folklore.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chicana life-cycle rituals / Norma E. Cantú; title: Art of the santera / Helen R. Lucero; title: The indita genre of New Mexico : gender and cultural identification / Brenda M. Romero; title: Danger! children at play : patriarchal ideology and the construction of gender in Spanish language Hispanic/Chicano children's songs and games / María Herrera-Sobek; title: Caminando con la llorona : traditional and contemporary narratives / Domino Renée Pérez; title: Indianizing Catholicism : Chicana/India/Mexicana indigenous spiritual practices in our image / Yolanda Broyles-González; title: Las que menos queria el niño : women of the Fidencista movement / Cynthia L. Vidaurri; title: Transgressing the taboo : a Chicana's voice in the mariachi world / Leonor Xóchitl Pérez; title: Meeting la cantante through verse, song, and performance / Cándida F. Jáquez; title: Ranchera music(s) and the legendary Lydia Mendoza : performing social location and relations / Yolanda Broyles-González; title: Mounting traditions : the origin and evolution of la escarmuza charra / Olga Nájera-Ramírez; title: Cruzando frontejas : Selena, Tejano music and the politics of "crossover" / Deborah R. Vargas; title: Goldie Garcia : la reina de South Broadway y rasquache / Tey Marianna Nunn.