Speaking Chicana
Subtitle: voice, power, and identity
By: edited by D. Letticia Galindo, María Dolores Gonzales.
Contributors: Galindo, D. Letticia 1952-; Gonzales, María Dolores, 1946-
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Mexican American women -- Language.; Sociolinguistics -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crossing social and cultural borders: the road to language hybridity / María Dolores Gonzales; title: Fighting words: Latina girls, gangs, and language attitudes / Norma Mendoza-Denton; title: Speaking as a Chicana: tracing cultural heritage through silence and betrayal / Jacqueline M. Martínez; title: The power of language: from the back of the bus to the ivory tower / Christine Marín; title: Challenging tradition: opening the headgate / Ida M. Luján; title: Mexican blood runs through my veins / Aurora Orozco; title: Searching for a voice: ambiguities and possibilities / Erlinda Gonzales-Berry; title: Sacred cults, subversive icons: Chicanas and the pictorial language of Catholicism / Charlene Villaseñor Black; title: Caló and taboo language use among Chicanas: a description of linguistic appropriation and innovation / D. Letticia Galindo; title: Máscaras, trenzas, y greñas : un/masking the self while un/braiding Latina stories and legal discourse / Margaret E. Montoya.