Authors:Chon A. Noriega, Eric R. Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, C
Publisher: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications
Keywords: aztlan, anthology, series, vol, studies, chicano, reader
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0895510979
ISBN-13: 9780895510976

This anthology brings together twenty ground-breaking essays from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, the journal of record in the field. Spanning thirty years, these essays shaped the development of Chicano studies and testify to its broad disciplinary and thematic range. The anthology documents four major strands in Chicano scholarship and is divided into sections accordingly: Decolonizing the Territory, Performing Politics, Configuring Identities, and Remapping the World. Each section is introduced by one of the co-editors, five Chicano and Chicana academics who teach introductory cour

Authors:Virginia M. Fields, Victor Zamudio-Taylor,
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Keywords: homeland, mythic, art, aztlan, road
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2001-09
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0826324274
ISBN-13: 9780826324276

Published in conjunction with the major exhibition, ’The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland’ explores the art derived from and created about the legendary area that encompasses the American Southwest and portions of Mexico long before they were separated by an international border. The book and accompanying exhibition view Aztlan as a metaphoric centre and allegorical place of origin for the various peoples of the Southwest and Mexico. Cultural interactions between the two areas span two millennia, beginning with maize cultivation, which spread north from Mexico around BC 1