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Today the genre of science fiction is widely associated with big-budget American films featuring space invaders and lab-made monsters. Outside of mainstream media, however, science fiction is often employed for political allegory, exploration of identity, and critiques of societal hierarchies and norms by diasporic, Indigenous, and independent filmmakers around the world.

Collected Writings of a Latino Film Critic in Hollywood, 1921–1939 Gabriel Navarro (1894–1950) was a keen observer of Hispanic culture in the 1920s and 1930s. His columns and reviews in Spanish-language newspapers published in the Southwest covered a range of topics, from the lives of Hollywood’s well-known Mexican actors to the plight of Mexican extras...

Now available as an e-book for Kindle, NOOK, and Kobo. Knowledge for Justice: An Ethnic Studies Reader is a joint publication of UCLA’s four ethnic studies research centers (American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and African American Studies) and their administrative organization, the Institute of American Cultures. This book is premised on the assumption articulated by Johnnella...

This collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics, reinterpretation, postnationalism, and mestizaje-the mixing of race and culture-in the production and reception of Chicano/Latino music. Barrio Harmonics opens with a...

Pioneering art historian Shifra M. Goldman’s work is an essential cornerstone in the study of both Chicana/o and contemporary Latin American art. This illustrated collection of essays, edited and introduced by Charlene Villaseñor Black, brings together Goldman’s groundbreaking scholarship on Chicana/o art, but it also represents her archival efforts and political activism, which were aimed...

Oral history has been utilized for decades by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists to collect data about lived experience.  This book explores how oral history, using video recordings and storytelling as well as interviews, can be employed for a number of purposes in communities of color. The authors discuss oral histories that are intended not only...

With these one hundred poems Alurista created a highly original poetics that upset the literary conventions of the era. Floricanto en Aztlán was first published in 1971, at the height of the Chicano Movement. In this groundbreaking work Alurista presented a new and essentially Chicano poetic language that is part Spanish and part English, with references to...

Visual and performance artist Sandra de la Loza presents a wry commentary on the Chicano history of Los Angeles in this field guide to Downtown and East Los Angeles. Using the format of the photographic essay, she documents the exploits of the Pocho Research Society, an organization dedicated to commemorating sites in Los Angeles that...

In Paths to Discovery a group of extraordinary Chicanas trace how their interest in math and science at a young age developed into a passion fed by talent and determination. Today they are teaching at major universities, setting public and institutional policy, and pursuing groundbreaking research. These testimonios-personal stories-will encourage young Chicanas to enter the fields...