The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlan, 1970-2000.

Edited by Chon A. Noriega, Eric R. Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, Chela Sandoval, and Rafael Pérez-Torres

© 2001 Paper: $19.95. 320 pp. ISBN number: 0-89551-097-9.

Now in its third printing!

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 courses and graduate seminars in Chicano studies.

Advance Praise
"This volume should be required reading for any undergraduate or graduate course in ethnic studies."
—Dr. George Sanchez, president of the American Studies Association

Book Reviews

Lopez Pulido A. 2002. " In the Spirit of Ernesto Galarza: Recent Publications in Chicano Studies." American Quarterly 54 (4): 719-729 DEC.

As a landmark collection on the state of Chicano studies, The Chicano Studies Reader provides an invaluable thirty-year overview of the field. The publication of The Chicano Studies Reader along with the advent of a new series on Mexican Americans represents a critical juncture in Chicana and Chicano studies as it marks the evolving incorporation and institutionalization of Chicano studies within higher education.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

•Decolonizing the Territory

Introduction
Eric R. Avila

Toward an Operational Definition of the Mexican American (vol. 1, no. 1, spring 1970)
Fernando Peñalosa

Toward a Perspective on Chicano History (vol. 2, no. 2, fall 1971)
Juan Gómez–Quiñones

Los Desarraigados: Chicanos in the Midwestern Region of the United States (vol. 7, no. 2, summer 1976)
Gilbert Cardenas

Recent Chicano Historiography: An Interpretive Essay (vol. 19, no. 1, spring 1988–1990)
Alex M. Saragoza

Chicano Cinema and the Horizon of Expectations: A Discursive Analysis of Film Reviews in the Mainstream, Alternative, and Hispanic Press, 1987-1988 (vol. 19, no. 2, fall 1988–1990)
Chon A. Noriega

Refiguring Aztlán (vol. 22, no. 2, fall 1997)
Rafael Pérez-Torres

•Performing Politics

Introduction
Karen Mary Davalos

Chicano Teatro: A Background (vol. 2, no. 2, fall 1971)
Jorge A. Huerta

Folklore, Lo Mexicano, and Proverbs (vol 13, spring and fall 1982)
Américo Paredes

Mexican Muralism: Its Social-Educative Roles in Latin America and the United States (vol. 13, spring and fall 1982)
Shifra M. Goldman

A Perspective for a Study of Religious Dimensions in Chicano Experience: Bless Me, Ultima as a Religious Text (vol. 13, spring and fall 1982)
David Carrasco

Mexican American Home Altars: Toward Their Interpretation (vol. 13, spring and fall 1982)
Kay Turner

•Configuring Identities

Introduction
Chela Sandoval

Chicanas and El Movimiento (vol. 5, nos. 1 & 2, fall 1974)
Adaljiza Sosa Riddell

Unraveling America’s Hispanic Past: Internal Stratification and Class Boundaries (vol. 17, no. 1, spring 1986)
Ramón A. Gutiérrez

Beyond Indifference and Antipathy: The Chicana Movement and Chicana Feminist Discourse (vol. 19, no. 2, fall 1988–1990)
Denise A. Segura and Beatriz M. Pesquera

Chicana Identity Matters (vol. 22, no. 2, fall 1997)
Deena J. González

Latino Performance and Identity
(vol. 22, no. 2, fall 1997)
David Román

•Remapping the World

Introduction
Rafael Pérez-Torres

Political Familism: Toward Sex-Role Equality in Chicano Families (vol. 6, no. 1, spring 1975)
Maxine Baca Zinn

Chicano Critical Discourse: An Emerging Cultural Practice (vol. 18, no. 2, fall 1987)
Angie Chabram

Mapping the Spanish Language along a Multiethnic and Multilingual Border (vol. 21, nos. 1 and 2, 1992–1996)
Rosaura Sánchez

The Folklore of the Freeway: Space, Culture, and Identity in Postwar Los Angeles (vol. 23, no. 1, spring 1998)
Eric R. Avila

Chicana/o Studies and Anthropology: The Dialogue That Never Was (vol. 23, no. 2, fall 1998)
Karen Mary Davalos

•Index