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Culture across borders : Mexican immigration & popular culture /
Culture Across Borders is the first book-length study to analyze a wide range of cultural manifestations of the Mexican immigration experience, including art literature, cinema, corridos (folk songs), and humor. It shows how Mexican immigrants have been depicted in popular culture - both in Mexico a...
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: culture across borders / David R. Maciel and María Herrera-Sobek
- "What goes around, comes around": political practice and cultural response in the internationalization of Mexican labor, 1890-1997 / Juan Gómez-Quiñones and David R. Maciel
- Undocumented crossings: narratives of Mexican immigration to the United States / Alberto Ledesma
- Telling images bracket the "broken-promise(d) land": the culture of immigration and the immigration of culture across borders / Victor Alejandro Sorell
- The celluloid immigrant: the narrative films of Mexican immigration / David R. Maciel and María Rosa García-Acevedo
- Jokelore, cultural differences, and linguistic dexterity: the construction of the Mexican immigrant in Chicano humor / José Reyna and María Herrera-Sobek
- The corrido as hypertext: undocumented Mexican immigrant films and the Mexican/Chicano ballad / María Herrera-Sobek
- Contributors.