Routledge Handbook of Chicana/O Studies

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.

Francisco A. Lomelí is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the Spanish and Portuguese and Chicana/o Studies Departments. His areas of interest and expertise include Chicana/o literature and culture, Southwest literary history, Latin American literature (the novels and certain regions like Central America, Mexico, parts of South America), Spanglish, and literary theory pertaining to Chicana/o Studies. Denise A. Segura is Professor of Sociology and Affiliated Professor in the respective departments of Chicana/o Studies and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Recipient of the Lifetime Distinguished Contributions to Research, Teaching and Service from the Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, she publishes widely in Chicana feminist studies borderlands studies, and Chicana/Mexicana employment. She co-edited with Patricia Zavella, Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Duke University Press, 2007. Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe is Honorary Professor of American Studies at Michel de Montaigne University, France, affiliated with the CLIMAS Bordeaux research center, and has published extensively on Chicano poetry, literature, culture, arts, drama, cinema, on the literature of immigration, and transcultural phenomena. Her main contributions to the field, as author, co-author, editor, or co-editor are Vous Avez Dit Chicano, Ecritures Hispaniques aux Etats-Unis: Mémoire et Mutations, Cinéma américain: aux marches du Paradis, Cinéma métis: le cinéma de la frontière Mexique/Etats-Unis, Confrontations et Métissages. She has been conferred the distinction of Knight of the Legion of Honor for services rendered to French research and that of Commander of Academic Palms for her educational activities.

Introduction: Handbook of Chicana/o Studies, Francisco A. Lomelí, Denise A. Segura and Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe Part I. Chicana/o History and Social Movements Introduction to Chicana/o History and Social Movements 1. What is Aztlán?: Homeland, Quest, Female Place, David Carrasco 2. Chicano History- A General Approach, Mario T. García 3. Recent Chicana/o Historiography: Advances, Shortcoming, and Challenges, Alex M. Saragoza 4. The Chicano Movement, Ramón A. Gutiérrez 5. A Genealogy of Chicana History, the Chicana Movement, and Chicana Studies, Miroslava Chávez-García 6. Bilingual Education: History, Policy, and Insights from Critical Race Theory, Grace P. McField Part II. Borderlands: Contested (Im)migrations, Culture and Citizenship Introduction to Borderlands: Contested (Im)migrations, Culture and Citizenship 7. México y lo Mexicano in Aztlán: Transborder Economic, Cultural and Political Links, David R. Maciel and María Rosa García-Acevedo 8. Immigration, Latinos, and the Media, Leo R. Chávez 9. Mobilizing for Life: Illegality, Organ Transplants, and Migrant Biosociality, Jonathan Xavier Inda 10. Discourses of Violence and Peace: About and On the U.S.-Mexico Border, María-Socorro Tabuenca 11. Reconstructing Home in the Borderlands, Patricia Zavella Part III. Cultural Production in Local and Global Settings Introduction to Cultural Production in Local and Global Settings 12. Colonial, De-colonial, and Transnational Choreographies in Ritual Danzas and Popular Bailes of Greater Mexico, Enrique R. Lamadrid 13. The Challenge of Chicana/o Music, Steven Loza 14. Chicana/o Literature's Multi-Spatiotemporal Projections & Impacts; or Back to the Future, Frederick Luis Aldama 15. From Don Juan to Dolores Huerta: Foundational Chicana/o Films, Catherine Leen 16. Origins and Evolution of Homies as Hip Rasquache Cultural Artifacts: Taking the Homies Out of the Barrio or the Barrio Out of the Homies, Francisco A. Lomelí Part IV. Indigeneity, Mestizaje, Postnationalism, and Transnationalism: Overarching Phenomena of Interdisciplinarity Introduction to Indigeneity, Mestizaje, Postnationalism, and Transnationalism: Overarching Phenomena of Interdisciplinarity 17. The Embodied Epistemology of Chicano Mestizaje, Rafael Pérez-Torres 18. New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa, Domino Renee Pérez 19. "Aztlán es una fábula": Navigating Postnational Spaces in Chicana/o Culture, Marc Priewe 20. Regional Singularity and Decolonial Chicana/o Studies, Lene M. Johannessen 21. Transnationalism Chicana/o Style, Karin Ikas Part V. Chicana/o Identities and Political Expressions Introduction to Chicana/o Identities and Political Expressions 22. Narrative Identity and the Dialectics of Selfhood in Chicana/o Writing, Sophia Emmanouilidou 23. The Challenge of Colorism in the Chicana/o Community, Margaret Hunter 24. Bilingualism and Biculturalism: Spanish, English, Spanglish?, Cecilia Montes-Alcalá 25. The Landscapes and Languaging of Chicana Feminisms, Aída Hurtado 26. The Aesthetics of Healing and Love: An Epistemic Geneaology of Jota/o Aesthetic Traditions, William A. Calvo-Quirós Part VI. Violence, Resistance and Empowerment Introduction to Violence, Resistance and Empowerment 27. The Art of Disruption: Chicana/o Art's Politicized Strategies for Aesthetic Innovation, Guisela Latorre 28. Resisting the Dominant Anglo-American Discourse: Political Activism and the Art of Protest, Astrid M. Fellner and Claire M. Massey 29. Spanish Language Media: From Politics of Resistance to Politics of Pan-ethnicity, Xavier Medina Vidal and Federico Subervi-Vélez 30. Transnational Incest: Sexual Violence and Migration in Mexican Families, Gloria González-López Part VII. International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies: From Aztlán to Shores Abroad Introduction to International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies: From Aztlán to Shores Abroad 31. Chicana/o Studies in France: Emergence and Development, Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe 32. Chicano Studies and Inter-American Studies in Germany, Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez 33. Reception of Chicano Literature and Culture in Italy: A Survey, Erminio Corti 34. A Trans-Atlantic Look at Chicano Culture and Literature from a Spanish Perspective, José Antonio Gurpegui