Mexican American Voices

Mexican American Voices: A Tapestry of Resilience, Culture, and Identity

The vibrant tapestry of American life is woven with countless threads, and among the most vibrant are the voices of Mexican Americans. This rich heritage, shaped by centuries of history, migration, and cultural exchange, deserves to be heard, understood, and celebrated. This post delves into the diverse experiences and contributions of Mexican Americans, exploring their unique perspectives, challenges, and triumphs through literature, art, activism, and everyday life. We'll uncover the multifaceted nature of this community, highlighting the stories that often go untold and the voices that deserve amplification.

H2: A History Woven in Resilience: Tracing the Roots of Mexican American Identity

The narrative of Mexican Americans isn't a singular story, but a complex braid of experiences. From the historical context of the Mexican-American War and the annexation of vast territories, to the subsequent waves of immigration and the ongoing struggle for civil rights, their journey is marked by both profound loss and remarkable resilience. Understanding this historical foundation is crucial to appreciating the nuances of contemporary Mexican American voices.

H3: The Impact of Colonialism and the Mexican-American War

The legacy of colonialism and the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) continues to shape the identity and experiences of Mexican Americans. The loss of land and the subsequent displacement of Mexican populations created a deep-seated sense of injustice that reverberates through generations. This historical trauma profoundly impacted cultural preservation and access to resources.

H3: The Rise of Chicano Activism and the Fight for Civil Rights

The latter half of the 20th century witnessed the rise of the Chicano Movement, a powerful force demanding social justice, equality, and the recognition of Mexican American cultural identity. This era saw the emergence of significant literary and artistic movements, fueled by a desire to reclaim narratives and challenge dominant societal perceptions.

H2: Amplifying the Voices: Literature, Art, and Activism

Mexican American voices find powerful expression through various mediums. Literature, art, and activism serve as crucial platforms for sharing stories, challenging stereotypes, and advocating for change.

H3: Literature as a Mirror to Society

Mexican American literature offers a rich tapestry of experiences, reflecting the complexities of identity, cultural preservation, and the challenges of assimilation. Authors like Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, and Richard Rodriguez have captured the heart and soul of this community through their compelling narratives. Their works provide invaluable insight into the lives and struggles of Mexican Americans across generations.

H3: The Power of Visual Arts and Music

The visual arts and music offer powerful avenues for self-expression and cultural preservation. Murals, paintings, and music often depict the struggles, resilience, and cultural pride of Mexican Americans. These artistic expressions serve as a potent reminder of their enduring legacy.

H3: Modern Activism and Social Justice Movements

Mexican American communities remain active participants in social justice movements, advocating for immigration reform, educational equity, and economic justice. Their voices continue to raise awareness of critical issues and demand systemic change.

H2: Challenges and Triumphs: Navigating a Multifaceted Identity

The journey of Mexican Americans is one of both significant challenges and remarkable triumphs. Navigating issues of assimilation, discrimination, and cultural preservation requires a constant balancing act.

H3: The Struggle Against Stereotypes and Discrimination

Mexican Americans continue to confront stereotypes and discrimination based on ethnicity, language, and socioeconomic status. Overcoming these obstacles requires persistent advocacy and community support.

H3: Preserving Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

Maintaining cultural traditions and language while adapting to a rapidly changing society is a vital aspect of Mexican American identity. Balancing the desire for assimilation with the importance of cultural preservation is a complex task that communities grapple with daily.

H2: Celebrating the Richness of Mexican American Culture

The cultural contributions of Mexican Americans are integral to the fabric of American society. From culinary traditions to artistic expression, their impact is undeniable. Understanding and celebrating this diversity enriches our collective understanding of American identity.

Conclusion

Mexican American voices are essential to understanding the rich tapestry of American society. By listening to their stories, acknowledging their struggles, and celebrating their triumphs, we build a more inclusive and equitable future. The diverse experiences and contributions of this community enrich our nation, offering valuable lessons in resilience, cultural preservation, and the pursuit of justice. Let us continue to amplify these voices and learn from the strength and beauty of their heritage.

FAQs

1. What are some key historical events that shaped Mexican American identity? Key events include the Mexican-American War, the Bracero Program, and the Chicano Movement. These periods significantly impacted land ownership, immigration patterns, and the fight for civil rights.

2. How can I learn more about Mexican American literature? Start by exploring works by authors such as Rudolfo Anaya (Bless Me, Ultima), Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street), and Richard Rodriguez (Hunger of Memory). Libraries and bookstores offer extensive selections of Mexican American literature.

3. What are some prominent organizations advocating for Mexican American rights? Numerous organizations, including the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the National Council of La Raza (UnidosUS), actively work to advance the rights and interests of Mexican Americans.

4. How can I support Mexican American artists and cultural initiatives? Attend cultural events, purchase art from Mexican American artists, and support businesses owned by members of the community. Engage with their work and share it with others to increase visibility and appreciation.

5. What are some common challenges faced by Mexican American communities today? Challenges include issues like immigration reform, access to quality education and healthcare, and ongoing systemic discrimination. Addressing these issues requires collective action and policy changes.


  mexican american voices: Mexican American Voices Steven Mintz, 2009-05-04 This short, comprehensive collection of primary documents provides an indispensable introduction to Mexican American history and culture. Includes over 90 carefully chosen selections, with a succinct introduction and comprehensive headnotes that identify the major issues raised by the documents Emphasizes key themes in US history, from immigration and geographical expansion to urbanization, industrialization, and civil rights struggles Includes a 'visual history' chapter of images that supplement the documents, as well as an extensive bibliography
  mexican american voices: Mexican American Voices Steven Mintz, 2009-05-04 This short, comprehensive collection of primary documents provides an indispensable introduction to Mexican American history and culture. Includes over 90 carefully chosen selections, with a succinct introduction and comprehensive headnotes that identify the major issues raised by the documents Emphasizes key themes in US history, from immigration and geographical expansion to urbanization, industrialization, and civil rights struggles Includes a 'visual history' chapter of images that supplement the documents, as well as an extensive bibliography
  mexican american voices: Voices in the Kitchen Meredith E. Abarca, 2006-03-16 “Literally, chilaquiles are a breakfast I grew up eating: fried corn tortillas with tomato-chile sauce. Symbolically, they are the culinary metaphor for how working-class women speak with the seasoning of their food.”—from the Introduction Through the ages and across cultures, women have carved out a domain in which their cooking allowed them to express themselves, strengthen family relationships, and create a world of shared meanings with other women. In Voices in the Kitchen, Meredith E. Abarca features the voices of her mother and several other family members and friends, seated at their kitchen tables, to share the grassroots world view of these working-class Mexican and Mexican American women. In the kitchen, Abarca demonstrates, women assert their own sazón (seasoning), not only in their cooking but also in their lives. Through a series of oral histories, or charlas culinarias (culinary chats), the women interviewed address issues of space, sensual knowledge, artistic and narrative expression, and cultural and social change. From her mother’s breakfast chilaquiles to the most elaborate traditional dinner, these women share their lives as they share their savory, symbolic, and theoretical meanings of food. The charlas culinarias represent spoken personal narratives, testimonial autobiography, and a form of culinary memoir, one created by the cooks-as-writers who speak from their kitchen space. Abarca then looks at writers-as-cooks to add an additional dimension to the understanding of women’s power to define themselves. Voices in the Kitchen joins the extensive culinary research of the last decade in exploring the importance of the knowledge found in the practical, concrete, and temporal aspects of the ordinary practice of everyday cooking.
  mexican american voices: Californio Voices José Mariá Amador, Lorenzo Asisara, 2005 In the early 1870s, Hubert H. Bancroft and his assistants set out to record the memoirs of early Californios, one of them being eighty-three-year-old Don Jose Maria Amador, a former Forty-Niner during the California Gold Rush and soldado de cuera at the Presidio of San Francisco. Amador tells of reconnoitering expeditions into the interior of California, where he encountered local indigenous populations. He speaks of political events of Mexican California and the widespread confiscation of the Californios' goods, livestock, and properties when the United States took control. A friend from Mission Santa Cruz, Lorenzo Asisara, also describes the harsh life and mistreatment the Indians faced from the priests. Both the Amador and Asisara narratives were used as sources in Bancroft's writing but never published themselves. Gregorio Mora-Torres has now rescued them from obscurity and presents their voices in English translation (with annotations) and in the original Spanish on facing pages. This bilingual edition will be of great interest to historians of the West, California, and Mexican American studies.
  mexican american voices: The Chicanos Ed Ludwig, James Santibañez, 1971 Writings by and about Mexican Americans by Daniel Garza, Amado Muro, Durango Mendoza, Richard Dokey, Raymond Barrio, Luis Valdez, Cesar Chavez, Sister Mary Prudence Moylan, Ronald Arias, Jesus Ascension Arreola Jr., Manuel Aragon, James Santibanez, Antonio Gomez, Philip D. Ortega, Feliciano Rivera, Richard Vasquez, Reies Lopez Tijerina, Eliu Carranza, Albert Herrera, Roberto and Jose Aragon, Joan Baez, and Enrique Hank Lopez.
  mexican american voices: Mexican Voices/American Dreams Marilyn P. Davis, 1991 In these vivid recollections, recorded both in Mexico and the U.S., 90 Mexican-Americans share their innermost thoughts and feelings and reveal a wealth of experiences: the risks they take, what they left behind, their dreams versus the realities, and how immigration has changed their lives.
  mexican american voices: Mexican Voices of the Border Region Laura Velasco Ortiz, Oscar F. Contreras, 2011-03-18 Every day, 40,000 commuters cross the U.S. Mexico border at Tijuana San Diego to go to work. Untold numbers cross illegally. Since NAFTA was signed into law, the border has become a greater obstacle for people moving between countries. Transnational powers have exerted greater control over the flow of goods, services, information, and people. Mexican Voices of the Border Region examines the flow of people, commercial traffic, and the development of relationships across this border. Through first-person narratives, Laura Velasco Ortiz and Oscar F. Contreras show that since NAFTA, Tijuana has become a dynamic and significant place for both nations in terms of jobs and residents. The authors emphasize that the border itself has different meanings whether one crosses it frequently or not at all. The interviews probe into matters of race, class, gender, ethnicity, place, violence, and political economy as well as the individual's sense of agency.
  mexican american voices: Archives of Dispossession Karen R. Roybal, 2017-08-08 One method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property rights to Mexican landowners, which led to dispossession. Many historical accounts overlook this colonial impact on Indigenous and Mexican peoples, and existing studies that do tackle this subject tend to privilege the male experience. Here, Karen R. Roybal recenters the focus of dispossession on women, arguing that gender, sometimes more than race, dictated legal concepts of property ownership and individual autonomy. Drawing on a diverse source base—legal land records, personal letters, and literature—Roybal locates voices of Mexican American women in the Southwest to show how they fought against the erasure of their rights, both as women and as landowners. Woven throughout Roybal's analysis are these women's testimonios—their stories focusing on inheritance, property rights, and shifts in power. Roybal positions these testimonios as an alternate archive that illustrates the myriad ways in which multiple layers of dispossession—and the changes of property ownership in Mexican law—affected the formation of Mexicana identity.
  mexican american voices: Contemporary Mexican Women Writers Gabriella de Beer, 1996-11-01 Mexican women writers moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Maria Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina, Brianda Domecq, Carmen Boullosa, and Angeles Mastretta. Sharing a range of affinities while maintaining distinctive voices and outlooks, these are the women whom Gabriella de Beer has chosen to profile in Contemporary Mexican Women Writers. De Beer takes a three-part approach to each writer. She opens with an essay that explores the writer's apprenticeship and discusses her major works. Next, she interviews each writer to learn about her background, writing, and view of herself and others. Finally, de Beer offers selections from the writer's work that have not been previously published in English translation. Each section concludes with a complete bibliographic listing of the writer's works and their English translations. These essays, interviews, and selections vividly recreate the experience of being with the writer and sharing her work, hearing her tell about and evaluate herself, and reading the words she has written. The book will be rewarding reading for everyone who enjoys fine writing.
  mexican american voices: Corazón Abierto Kathleen A. Hudson, 2022-08-24 Corazón Abierto: Mexican American Voices in Texas Music provides a wide view of the myriad contributions Mexican American artists have made to music in Texas and the United States. Based on interviews with longtime stalwarts of Mexican American music—Flaco Jiménez, Tish Hinojosa, Ernie Durawa, Rosie Flores, and others—and also conversations with newer voices like Lesly Reynaga, Marisa Rose Mejia, Josh Baca, and many more, Kathleen Hudson allows the musicians to tell their own stories in a unique and personal way. As the artists reveal in their free-ranging discussions with Hudson, their influences go far beyond traditionally Mexican genres like conjunto, norteño, and Tejano to extend into rock, jazz, country-western, zydeco, and many other styles. Hudson’s survey also includes essays, poetry, and other creative works by Dagoberto Gilb, Sandra Cisneros, and others, but the core of the book consists of what she describes as “a collection of voices from different locations in Texas. . . . Some represent voices from the edge, while others give us a view from the center.” Weaving together a tapestry that combines “family, borders, creativity, music, food, and community,” the book presents an image as varied and difficult to define as the musicians themselves. By sharing the artists’ accounts of their influences, their experiences, their family stories, and their musical and cultural journeys, Corazón Abierto reminds us that borders can be gateways, that differences enrich, rather than isolate.
  mexican american voices: Latina/os and World War II Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, B. V. Olguín, 2014-04-15 This eye-opening anthology documents, for the first time, the effects of World War II on Latina/o personal and political beliefs across a broad spectrum of ethnicities and races within the Latina/o identity.
  mexican american voices: The Latino Generation Mario T. García, 2014 Latino Generation: Voices of the New America
  mexican american voices: Mexican American Mojo Anthony Macías, 2008-11-11 Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and 1960s, Mexican American Mojo is a lively account of Mexican American urban culture in wartime and postwar Los Angeles as seen through the evolution of dance styles, nightlife, and, above all, popular music. Revealing the links between a vibrant Chicano music culture and postwar social and geographic mobility, Anthony Macías shows how by participating in jazz, the zoot suit phenomenon, car culture, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and Latin music, Mexican Americans not only rejected second-class citizenship and demeaning stereotypes, but also transformed Los Angeles. Macías conducted numerous interviews for Mexican American Mojo, and the voices of little-known artists and fans fill its pages. In addition, more famous musicians such as Ritchie Valens and Lalo Guerrero are considered anew in relation to their contemporaries and the city. Macías examines language, fashion, and subcultures to trace the history of hip and cool in Los Angeles as well as the Chicano influence on urban culture. He argues that a grass-roots “multicultural urban civility” that challenged the attempted containment of Mexican Americans and African Americans emerged in the neighborhoods, schools, nightclubs, dance halls, and auditoriums of mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles. So take a little trip with Macías, via streetcar or freeway, to a time when Los Angeles had advanced public high school music programs, segregated musicians’ union locals, a highbrow municipal Bureau of Music, independent R & B labels, and robust rock and roll and Latin music scenes.
  mexican american voices: Writing the Goodlife Priscilla Solis Ybarra, 2016-03-24 The book looks to long-established traditions of environmentalist thought alive in Mexican American literary history over the last 150 years--Provided by publisher.
  mexican american voices: The Book of Unknown Americans Cristina Henríquez, 2014-06-03 A stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and illuminates the lives behind the current debates about Latino immigration (The New York Times Book Review). When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it’s not long before Maribel attracts the attention of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. Their love story sets in motion events that will have profound repercussions for everyone involved. Here Henríquez seamlessly interweaves the story of these star-crossed lovers, and of the Rivera and Toro families, with the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America.
  mexican american voices: Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz , 2021-04-13 The moving stories of children in migration—in their own words. In Spanish and in English, a devastating first-person account of children’s experiences in detention at the southern U.S. border.... A powerful, critical document only made more heartbreaking in picture-book form. —Kirkus Reviews starred review Every day, children in migration are detained at the US-Mexico border. They are scared, alone, and their lives are in limbo. Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz shares the stories of 61 these children, from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Mexico, ranging in age from five to seventeen—in their own words from actual sworn testimonies. Befitting the spirit of the project, the book is in English on one side; then flip it over, and there's a complete Spanish version. Illustrated by 17 Latinx artists, including Caldecott Medalist and multiple Pura Belpré Illustrator Award-winning Yuyi Morales and Pura Belpré Illustrator Award-winning Raὺl the Third. Includes information, questions, and action points. Buying this book benefits Project Amplify, an organization that supports children in migration.
  mexican american voices: Latino Voices Rodolfo O. de la Garza, 2019-04-08 This book provides basic information about the political values, attitudes and behaviors of Mexican-, Puerto Rican-, and Cuban-origin populations in the United States. It describes the extent to which U.S. citizens of Hispanic origins hold particular views and participate in specific activities.
  mexican american voices: Hispanic American Voices Deborah Gillan Straub, 1997 A collection of excerpted speeches delivered by Hispanic American leaders on a variety of issues including affirmative action, civil rights, bilingualism, education, and immigration, each accompanied by an introduction featuring biographical information about the speaker.
  mexican american voices: Amigos Del Otro Lado Gloria Anzaldúa, 1993 Did you come from Mexico? An Mexican-American defends Joaquin, a boyy frp, Mexico who came across the border. The Border Patrol is looking for him and his mother who are hiding. His newly found friend Prietita took him to the Herb Lady to help him with red welts.
  mexican american voices: From Coveralls to Zoot Suits Elizabeth R. Escobedo, 2013-03-21 During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shifts and the war challenged Americans to rethink notions of race. At this extraordinary historical moment, Mexican American women found new means to exercise control over their lives in the home, workplace, and nation. In From Coveralls to Zoot Suits, Elizabeth R. Escobedo explores how, as war workers and volunteers, dance hostesses and zoot suiters, respectable young ladies and rebellious daughters, these young women used wartime conditions to serve the United States in its time of need and to pursue their own desires. But even after the war, as Escobedo shows, Mexican American women had to continue challenging workplace inequities and confronting family and communal resistance to their broadening public presence. Highlighting seldom heard voices of the Greatest Generation, Escobedo examines these contradictions within Mexican families and their communities, exploring the impact of youth culture, outside employment, and family relations on the lives of women whose home-front experiences and everyday life choices would fundamentally alter the history of a generation.
  mexican american voices: Markets and Cultural Voices Tyler Cowen, 2009-11-10 This intriguing work explores the world of three amate artists. A native tradition, all of their painting is done in Mexico, yet, the finished product is sold almost exclusively to wealthy American art buyers. Cowen examines this cultural interaction between Mexico and the United States to see how globalization shapes the lives and the work of the artists and their families. The story of these three artists reveals that this exchange simultaneously creates economic opportunities for the artists, but has detrimental effects on the village. A view of the daily village life of three artists connected to the larger art world, this book should be of particular interest to those in the fields of cultural economics, Latino studies, economic anthropology and globalization.
  mexican american voices: Voices from the Ancestors Lara Medina, Martha R. Gonzales, 2019-10-08 Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences—wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces—a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms—in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
  mexican american voices: Songs My Mother Sang to Me Patricia Preciado Martin, 1992-07 Motivated by a love of her Mexican American heritage, Patricia Preciado Martin set out to document the lives and memories of the women of her mother's and grandmother's eras; for while the role of women in Southwest has begun to be chronicled, that of Hispanic women largely remains obscure. In Songs My Mother Sang to Me, she has preserved the oral histories of many of these women before they have been lost or forgotten. Martin's quest took her to ranches, mining towns, and cities throughout southern Arizona, for she sought to document as varied an experience of the contributions of Mexican American women as possible. The interviews covered family history and genealogy, childhood memories, secular and religious traditions, education, work and leisure, environment and living conditions, rites of passage, and personal values. Each of the ten oral histories reflects not only the spontaneity of the interview and personality of each individual, but also the friendship that grew between Martin and her subjects. Songs My Mother Sang to Me collects voices not often heard and brings to print accounts of social change never previously recorded. These women document more than the details of their own lives; in relating the histories of their ancestors and communities, they add to our knowledge of the culture and contributions of Mexican American people in the Southwest.
  mexican american voices: Native American Voices Steven Mintz, 2000-07-26 An introduction synthesizes the latest anthropological, archaeological, historical, and sociological scholarship and the 95 carefully edited selections provide students with an overview of Native American history from the earliest migrations to the present. The volume includes a chronology, glossary, and bibliography, making it a valuable teaching tool.
  mexican american voices: Mexican Americans/American Mexicans Matt S. Meier, Feliciano Ribera, 1994 Examines Mexican-American history from the time of the Spanish conquistadors to the Civil Rights movement and recent immigration laws.
  mexican american voices: Living Beyond Borders Margarita Longoria, 2022-05-10 *This superb anthology of short stories, comics, and poems is fresh, funny, and full of authentic YA voices revealing what it means to be Mexican American . . . Not to be missed.--SLC, starred review *Superlative . . . A memorable collection. --Booklist, starred review *Voices reach out from the pages of this anthology . . . It will make a lasting impression on all readers. --SLJ, starred review Twenty stand-alone short stories, essays, poems, and more from celebrated and award-winning authors make up this YA anthology that explores the Mexican American experience. With works by Francisco X. Stork, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, David Bowles, Rubén Degollado, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Diana López, Xavier Garza, Trinidad Gonzales, Alex Temblador, Aida Salazar, Guadalupe Ruiz-Flores, Sylvia Sánchez Garza, Dominic Carrillo, Angela Cervantes, Carolyn Dee Flores, René Saldaña Jr., Justine Narro, Daniel García Ordáz, and Anna Meriano. In this mixed-media collection of short stories, personal essays, poetry, and comics, this celebrated group of authors share the borders they have crossed, the struggles they have pushed through, and the two cultures they continue to navigate as Mexican Americans. Living Beyond Borders is at once an eye-opening, heart-wrenching, and hopeful love letter from the Mexican American community to today's young readers. A powerful exploration of what it means to be Mexican American.
  mexican american voices: Voices Lourdes Ferrer, DuPage County (Ill.). Regional Office of Education, Stephen Garlington, 2012-05-26 Prologue -- Findings -- Recommendations -- Final Thoughts -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors.
  mexican american voices: Voices of Marginality Gregory Lee Cuéllar, 2008 Voices of Marginality is theoretically grounded in the theology of the diaspora, which according to Fernando F. Segovia has been forged in the migratory experience of American Hispanics. This theological perspective views Judean exiles (587 B.C.E.) and contemporary Mexican migrants as part of a recurring diasporic human experience. The present analysis «reads across» from the exile and return envisioned in the poetry of Second Isaiah (40-55) to the corridos (ballads) about Mexican immigration to the United States. More specifically, the diasporic categories of exile and return in Second Isaiah inform our reading of exile and return in the Mexican immigrant corridos. Conversely, the rhetorical ability of these corridos to transmit a collective Mexican identity for immigrants in the United States provides a compelling lens for understanding the images of exile and return in Second Isaiah. Ultimately, both literary productions reflect voices of marginality.
  mexican american voices: Becoming Mexican American George J. Sanchez, 1995-03-23 Twentieth century Los Angeles has been the focus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between distinct cultures in U.S. history. In this pioneering study, Sanchez explores how Mexican immigrants Americanized themselves in order to fit in, thereby losing part of their own culture.
  mexican american voices: The Cruel Years William Loren Katz, Laurie R. Lehman, 2003-04-15 The Cruel Years provides readers with a vivid picture of what life was like a hundred years ago, not for the rich and famous but for ordinary working Americans. The story is told in the words of twenty-two fascinating people who lived by laboring long hours at farms and factories and mines. A preface by Howard Zinn and an introduction by William Loren Katz provide an easy-to-follow historical map that places these hard-hitting, first-person narratives in the context of their troubled times and within the larger picture of U.S. growth and development. Here are the no-nonsense words of a young immigrant trying to survive as a sweatshop operator in New York City, a hard working farmer's wife who has writing ambitions; a black southern sharecropper seeking fulfillment under a new system of slavery; a young Puerto Rican passing the Statue of Liberty and ready for new challenges; a Chinese immigrant, a Mexican immigrant, and a Japanese immigrant struggling to rise from lower rungs on the social and economic ladder; an Irish girl of sixteen deciding to become a political agitator; a black southern woman trying to fend off the hurts of Jim Crow; a coal miner telling of the lethal dangers of his work; and a black cowhand rejoicing in the thrill of the cattle trails.
  mexican american voices: Decolonial Voices Arturo J. Aldama, Naomi Helena Quiñonez, 2002-04-04 Decolonial Voices brings together a body of theoretically rigorous interdisciplinary essays that articulate and expand the contours of Chicana and Chicano cultural studies.
  mexican american voices: Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice Enrique M. Buelna, 2019-04-02 In the 1930s and 1940s the early roots of the Chicano Movement took shape. Activists like Jesús Cruz, and later Ralph Cuarón, sought justice for miserable working conditions and the poor treatment of Mexican Americans and immigrants through protests and sit-ins. Lesser known is the influence that Communism and socialism had on the early roots of the Chicano Movement, a legacy that continues today. Examining the role of Mexican American working-class and radical labor activism in American history, Enrique M. Buelna focuses on the work of the radical Left, particularly the Communist Party (CP) USA. Buelna delves into the experiences of Cuarón, in particular, as well as those of his family. He writes about the family’s migration from Mexico; work in the mines in Morenci, Arizona; move to Los Angeles during the Great Depression; service in World War II; and experiences during the Cold War as a background to exploring the experiences of many Mexican Americans during this time period. The author follows the thread of radical activism and the depth of its influence on Mexican Americans struggling to achieve social justice and equality. The legacy of Cuarón and his comrades is significant to the Chicano Movement and in understanding the development of the labor and civil rights movements in the United States. Their contributions, in particular during the 1960s and 1970s, informed a new generation to demand an end to the Vietnam War and to expose educational inequality, poverty, civil rights abuses, and police brutality.
  mexican american voices: Tijuana Book of the Dead Luis Alberto Urrea, 2015-03-17 From the author of Pulitzer-nominated The Devil’s Highway and national bestseller The Hummingbird’s Daughter comes an exquisitely composed collection of poetry on life at the border. Weaving English and Spanish languages as fluidly as he blends cultures of the southwest, Luis Urrea offers a tour of Tijuana, spanning from Skid Row, to the suburbs of East Los Angeles, to the stunning yet deadly Mojave Desert, to Mexico and the border fence itself. Mixing lyricism and colloquial voices, mysticism and the daily grind, Urrea explores duality and the concept of blurring borders in a melting pot society.
  mexican american voices: Competing Voices from the Mexican Revolution Chris Frazer, 2010 A unique compilation of diverse sources, many in English translation for the first time, this book documents the Mexican Revolution, explains its popular and agrarian nature, and helps to clarify its often perplexing conflicts, alliances, and issues. Competing Voices from the Mexican Revolution: Fighting Words lets readers see this watershed moment in Mexican history in a new light, through the eyes of people who actually experienced it. This annotated collection of brief primary sources—from Mexican and U.S. government documents, novels, news articles, ballads, travel accounts and memoirs, manifestos, correspondence, and graphic arts—brings together a wide range of contrasting opinions on the revolution's pivotal moments and controversies. From the beginnings of social unrest in the 1890s to the war's conclusion in 1923, readers can assess debates between factions, follow key individuals and military/political movements, evaluate the motives of participants, explore U.S.-Mexican relations, and gauge the war's impact across the full spectrum of Mexican society, including women and the peasant and working classes.
  mexican american voices: Mesoamerican Voices Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, Kevin Terraciano, 2005-11-07 A 2006 collection of indigenous-language writings from central Mexico and Guatemala, written during the colonial period.
  mexican american voices: Latina Lillian Castillo-speed, 1995-08-02 Thirty Hispanic stories by women writers. They range from Mary Ponce's Just Desserts, about a woman whose date turns sour, to Lucha Corpi's Epiphany: The Third Gift, on a girl who lacks femininity and the effect this has on her family.
  mexican american voices: Making Ethnic Choices Karen Leonard, 1994-01-25 [A] thoroughly original study that greatly expands our knowledge of how ethnic identities are formed. Leonard writes clearly and her inclusion of the voices of the Punjabi-Mexicans lends humor and depth to the history. This insightful study will be of interest to all scholars concerned with immigration and ethnicity and the history of California. --The Journal of Asian Studies This is a study of the flexibility of ethnic identity. In the early twentieth century, men from India's Punjab province came to California to work on the land. The new immigrants had few chances to marry. There were very few marriageable Indian women, and miscegenation laws and racial prejudice limited their ability to find white Americans. Discovering an unexpected compatibility, Punjabis married women of Mexican descent and these alliances inspired others as the men introduced their bachelor friends to the sisters and friends of their wives. These biethnic families developed an identity as Hindus but also as Americans. Karen Leonard has related theories linking state policies and ethnicity to those applied at the level of marriage and family life. Using written sources and numerous interviews, she invokes gender, generation, class, religion, language, and the dramatic political changes of the 1940s in South Asia and the United States to show how individual and group perceptions of ethnic identity have changed among Punjabi Mexican Americans in rural California. This is an extraordinary work. It is simultaneously an ethnography of early South Asian immigrant life in California, a model of fine-grained historical research using all manner of documents to reconstruct and interpret the migration flows, social structure, and family cycles of Punjabi men and their Mexican spouses, and a sophisticated examination of the complex role of 'identity' in their perceptions of themselves and their descendants.... In the midst of contemporary discussions about multi-culturalism, politically correctly positions, and valuing diversity, this book would be a fine place to begin a thoughtful consideration of the potential multiplicity of meanings ethnicity may have for human begins. --Journal of American Ethnic History No other book has the scope or the vision of Karen Leonard's work. I expect this book to be consulted as a model of historical research for many years to come. --James Freeman, San Jose State University
  mexican american voices: Crucible of Struggle Zaragosa Vargas, 2017 Latinos in the U.S. are a major political, economic, and cultural force that is changing the national identity of this country. In fact, statistics show that by the year 2100, half of the U.S. population may be Latino. And two out of three of America's Latinos are Mexican. Mexicans are theoldest settlers of the United States and the nation's largest group of recent immigrant arrivals. Their population is increasing faster than that of all other Latino groups combined. The growing importance of this minority group - which will be felt strongly in twenty-first-century America - callsfor a fresh assessment of Mexican American history.The second edition of Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to the Present Era includes a new final Chapter 12: Latinos and the Challenges of the 21st Century. This chapter examines such issues as increased anti-immigrant activity after 2006, the crucial roleof Latinos in the election of Barack Obama, increased border enforcement and deportation in the wake of the U.S. Senate's failure to pass amnesty legislation, Latinos and private detention centers, the role of individual states in immigration reform, the surge of unaccompanied children from CentralAmerica, and more.
  mexican american voices: California Polyphony Mina Yang, 2010-10-01 What does it mean to be Californian? To find out, Mina Yang delves into multicultural nature of musics in the state that has launched musical and cultural trends for decades. In the early twentieth century, an orientalist fascination with Asian music and culture dominated the popular imagination of white Californians and influenced their interactions with the Asian Other. Several decades later, tensions between the Los Angeles Police Department and the African American community made the thriving jazz and blues nightclub scene of 1940s Central Avenue a target for the LAPD's anti-vice crusade. The musical scores for Hollywood's noir films confirmed reactionary notions of the threat to white female sexuality in the face of black culture and urban corruption while Mexican Americans faced a conflicted assimilation into the white American mainstream. Finally, Korean Americans in the twenty-first century turned to hip-hop to express their cultural and national identities. A compelling journey into the origins of musical identity, California Polyphony explores the intersection of musicology, cultural history, and politics to define Californian.
  mexican american voices: Testimonio Francisco Arturo Rosales, 2000-08-31 Beginning with the early 1800s and extending to the modern era, Rosales collects illuminating documents that shed light on the Mexican-American quest for life, liberty, and justice. Documents include petitions, correspondence, government reports, political proclamations, newspaper items, congressional testimony, memoirs, and even international treaties.
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