Aztlán 24, no. 2 fall 1999                                                                Next Issue    Previous Issue

•Editor’s Introduction

•Editor’s Commentary
Why Chicanos Could Not Be Beat

•Essays

Making Latino News: Race, Language, and Class
América Rodriguez

La historia oral como autobiografía cultural. Dos ejemplos chicanos
Pilar Bellver

Borrowed Homes, Homesickness, and Memory in Ana Castillo’s Sapogonia
Maya Socolovsky

Serving Farm Workers, Serving Farmers: Migrant Social Services in Northwest Ohio
Marietta Morrissey

•Dossier: Mediating media

A Program for Change: Chicano Media into the Next Millennium
Ray Santisteban
The Mass Media and Latinos: Policy and Research Agendas for the Next Century
Federico A. Subervi-Vélez

Beyond the Cinema of the Other or Towards Another Cinema
Frances Negrón-Muntaner

•Artists’ Communiqués

“Domesticana”: The Sensibility of Chicana Rasquache
Amalia Mesa-Bains

•Reviews

Love and Rockets. By Los Bros Hernandez.
Rachel Rubin

New Latina Narrative: The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity. By Ellen McCracken.
Frederick Luis Aldama

Contributors

Editor's Introduction

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I guess they're done with the “Border Crossing” craze, right?

We close the Chicano Century with a journal issue that deals with news coverage, migrant social services, oral history, comic books, and literature. In the dossier section, we include a discussion of Latino media programming, policy, and production as we enter an era of global mass media. How do we, as Frances Negron-Muntaner asks, move beyond the supplemental status of the “Cinema of the Other” in order to produce another cinema? There is a lot at stake given the increasingly important role of the mass media as a transnational force within social, political, and economic relations. The revolution will not be televised, but there will be television. In her artist communiqué and the cover art, Amalia Mesa-Bains brings all these issues home with a critical and artistic eye for the details that link our private fantasies with very public histories.

So, what to do about the millennium madness and the dream deferred? If he were still with us, José Antonio Burciaga would no doubt put us straight. He'd remind us about the Y2K scare and all that it implies about unraveling hegemonic forces. Then he'd turn and confront la raza, asking, “¿Y tu, que?” And by the time we got the joke, we would be well on our way to an answer….