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Author Fregoso, Rosa Linda

Title MeXicana encounters : the making of social identities on the borderlands / Rosa Linda Fregoso
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 219 pages)
Series American crossroads ; 12
American crossroads ; 12
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Toward a Planetary Civil Society -- 2. Cross-Border Feminist Solidarities -- 3. Gender, Multiculturalism, and the Missionary Position on the Borderlands -- 4. Chicano Familia Romance -- 5. Familia Matters -- 6. "Fantasy Heritage": Tracking Latina Bloodlines -- 7. Haunted by Miscegenation -- 8. Ghosts of a Mexican Past
Summary Fregoso charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Her self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index
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Subject Mexican American women -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions
Women -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions
Women in popular culture -- Mexican-American Border Region
Women in motion pictures.
Mexican American women -- Ethnic identity
Group identity -- Mexican-American Border Region
Popular culture -- Mexican-American Border Region
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
Civilization
Ethnic relations
Group identity
Mexican American women -- Ethnic identity
Mexican American women -- Social conditions
Popular culture
Social conditions
Women in motion pictures
Women in popular culture
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Mexican-American Border Region -- Civilization
Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions
Mexican-American Border Region -- Ethnic relations
Subject North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
Mexico.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696782
ISBN 9780520937284
0520937287
1417520280
9781417520282
9780520229976
0520229975
9780520238909
0520238907