Rethinking the Borderlands(1st Edition) Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse (Latinos in American Society and Culture) by CarlGutiérrez-Jones Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-08579-4, ISBN: 0-520-08579-5
"Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. Rethinking the Borderlands is an insightful and provocative exploration of the ways Chicano and Chicana artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers engage this history in order to resist the disenfranchising effects of legal instit ..."
"In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures giv ..."
"In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures giv ..."
"CARL GUTIERREZ-JONES Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal
objectivity in the United States, Carl ... Ramon Gutierrez, author of When Jesus
Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New
Mexico, ... Thoroughly researched and intellectually rigorous, this book is an
outstanding contribution to literary studies. ... Borderlands offers a new
perspective on Chicano cultural practices by bringing together ..."
"The attempt by the George W. Bush administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11, 2001, increasingly appears to have resulted in a catastrophic “misshaping” of geopolitics in the wake of bungled campaigns in the Middle East and their many reverberations worldwide. Journalists and scholars are now trying to understand what happened, and this volume explores the role of culture and rhetoric in thi ..."