ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies is a unique interdisciplinary resource for students, libraries, and researchers interested in the largest and most rapidly growing racial-ethnic community in the United States and elsewhere which can either be identified as Chicano, Latino, Hispanic, or Mexican-American. Structured around seven comprehensive themes, the volume is for students of American studies, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities. The volume is organized around seven critical domains in Chicana/o Studies:
- Chicana/o History and Social Movements
- Borderlands, Global Migrations, Employment, and Citizenship
- Cultural Production in Global and Local Settings
- Chicana/o Identities
- Schooling, Language, and Literacy
- Violence, Resistance, and Empowerment
- International Perspectives
The Handbook will stress the importance of the historical origins of the Chicana/o Studies field. Starting from myth of origins, Aztlán, alleged cradle of the Chicana/o people lately substantiated by the findings of archaeology and anthropology, over Spanish/Indigenous relations until the present time. Essays will explore cultural and linguistic hybridism and showcase artistic practices (visual arts, music, and dance) through popular (folklore) or high culture achievements (museums, installations) highlighting the growth of a critical perspective grounded on key theoretical formulations including borderlands theories, intersectionalities, critical race theory, and cultural analysis.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|88 pages
Chicana/o history and social movements
part II|66 pages
Borderlands
chapter 7|15 pages
México y lo Mexicano in Aztlán
part III|61 pages
Cultural production in local and global settings
chapter 16|10 pages
Origins and evolution of Homies as hip Rasquache cultural artifacts
part IV|67 pages
Indigeneity, mestizaje, postnationalism, and transnationalism: overarching phenomena of interdisciplinarity
part V|62 pages
Chicana/o identities and political expressions
chapter 26|10 pages
The aesthetics of healing and love
part VI|59 pages
Violence, resistance, and empowerment
chapter 27|15 pages
The art of disruption
chapter 28|12 pages
Resisting the dominant Anglo American discourse
part VII|57 pages
International perspectives on Chicana/o Studies