Recent Scholarship
Latino/a
Alamillo, Jose, “Richard ‘Pancho’ Gonzalez, Race, and the Print Media in Postwar Tennis America,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (June 2009), 947–65.
Bishin, Benjamin G., and Casey A. Klofstad, “Deceit, Diversity, or Mobilization? Intra-ethnic Diversity and Changing Patterns in Florida’s Hispanic Vote,” Social Science Journal, 46 (Sept. 2009), 571–83.
Flores, Lori A., “An Unladylike Strike Fashionably Clothed: Mexicana and Anglo Women Garment Workers against Tex-Son, 1959–1963,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Aug. 2009), 367–402.
García, David A., “A Master of the Rosary: Apology and Confession in Selected Writings of Jesús Colón’s A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches,” Afro-Hispanic Review, 27 (Fall 2008), 45–70.
Gonzalez, Michael, “War and the Making of History: The Case of Mexican California, 1821–1846,” California History, 86 (no. 2, 2009), 5–25. Heavily illustrated.
Iber, Jorge, “Mexican-Americans of South Texas Football: The Athletic and Coaching Careers of E. C. Lerma and Bobby Cavazos, 1932–1965,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (June 2009), 966–80.
Innis-Jimenez, Michael, “Beyond the Baseball Diamond and Basketball Court: Organized Leisure in Inter-war Mexican South Chicago,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (June 2009), 906–23.
Marin, Christine, “Courting Success and Realizing the American Dream: Arizona’s Mighty Miami High School Championship Basketball Team, 1951,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (June 2009), 924–46.
Martinez-Catsam, Ana, “Frontier of Dissent: El Regidor, the Regime of Porfirio Díaz, and the Transborder Community,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (April 2009), 389–408.
Mendoza, Alexander, “The Building of an East Texas Barrio: A Brief Overview of the Creation of a Mexican American Community in Northeast Tyler,” East Texas Historical Journal, 48 (no. 2, 2009), 26–37.
Mirabal, Nancy Raquel, “Geographies of Displacement: Latinas/os, Oral History, and the Politics of Gentrification in San Francisco’s Mission District,” Public Historian, 31 (May 2009), 7–31.
Nihei, Mariko, “1940 nedai shoki rosanzerusu niokeru Mekishiko-kei beikokujin wakamono shudan no jokyo” (Mexican American youths in the early 1940s), Amerika Taiheiyo Kenkyu (Tokyo), 8 (2008), 151–64. In Japanese.
Ruiz, Vicki L., “Why Latino History Matters to U.S. History,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 20 (2009), 7–26.
Sato, Natsuki, “Higoho imin mondai to ‘Hisupanikku’ komyuniti: ‘Hisupanikku’ soshiki lulac no komyuniti no saiteigi” (The problem of illegal immigrants and the ‘Hispanic’ community: Re-definition of the community of the ‘Hispanic’ organization lulac), Amerikashi Hyoron (Kyoto), 26 (2008) In Japanese.
Todayama, Tasuku, “‘Eru Paso jiken’ to sengo-ki burasero puroguramu no seirits: Imin tosei o meguru 1940 nendai kohan no bei-boku seifukan kosho o chushin ni” (The El Paso incident: U.S.-Mexican negotiations on immigration control in the late 1940s), Amerika Taiheiyo Kenkyu (Tokyo), 8 (2008), 139–50. In Japanese.
Wallis, Eileen V., “‘Keeping Alive the Old Tradition’: Spanish-Mexican Club Women in Southern California, 1880–1940,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Summer 2009), 133–54.
Weaver, Janet, “From Barrio to ‘¡Boicoteo!’: The Emergence of Mexican American Activism in Davenport, 1917–1970,” Annals of Iowa, 68 (Summer 2009), 215–54.
Azcona, Steven César, “Movements in Chicano Music: Performing Culture, Performing Politics, 1965–1979” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3320607.
Blaine, Patricia A., “‘I Had to Come Here for My Family’: Mexican Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert, 1990–2005” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3335251.
De La Trinidad, Maritza, “Collective Outrage: Mexican American Activism and the Quest for Educational Equality and Reform, 1950–1990” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3320254.
García Peña, Lorgia, “Dominicanidad in Contra (Diction): Marginality, Migration, and the Narration of a Dominican National Identity” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3328825.
García, Dania López, “En Esta Casa Se Habla Español! The Role of Language Ideology and Life Choices in Language Maintenance and Language Shift across Three Generations of a Cuban American Family in the United States” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3332825.
Madrigal, Cándida R., “Acculturation, Ethnic Identity, Resilience, Self-Esteem, and General Well-Being: A Psychosocial Study of Colombians in the United States” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2008). Order No. DA3320115.
Ramos, Lisa Y., “A Class Apart: Mexican Americans, Race, and Civil Rights in Texas” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3333429.
Raymond, Virginia Marie, “Mexican Americans Write toward Justice in Texas, 1973–1982” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3320169.
Riofrio, John, “Beyond Borders: Immigration and Construction of Latin@ Identity and Culture in the Americas” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3328045.
Vigil, Ariana Elizabeth, “Art in a Time of War: U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production and the Central American Revolutions” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3330092.
Beltrán, Mary C., Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meaning of Film and tv Stardom. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. x, 212 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03454-1. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07651-0.)
Cantú, Norma E., “The Semiotics of Land and Place: Matachines Dancing in Laredo, Texas,” in Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos, ed. Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero, 97–115. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxiv, 445 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-252-03409-1. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07609-1.)
Cruz-Manjarrez, Adriana, “Dancing to the Heights: Performing Zapotec Identity, Aesthetics, and Religiosity,” in Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos, ed. Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero, 116–31. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxiv, 445 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-252-03409-1. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07609-1.)
Huerta, Elisa Diana, “Embodied Recuperations: Performance, Indigeneity, and Danza Azteca,” in Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos, ed. Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero, 3–18. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxiv, 445 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-252-03409-1. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07609-1.)
MacDonald, L. Lloyd, Tejanos in the 1835 Texas Revolution. (Gretna: Pelican, 2009. 365 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-58980-638-2.)
Nájera-Ramírez, Olga, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero, eds., Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxiv, 445 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-252-03409-1. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07609-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Shaw, Randy, Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the ufw, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xvi, 347 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-520-25107-6.)
Villahermosa, Gilberto N., Honor and Fidelity: The 65th Infantry in Korea, 1950–1953. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2009. xviii, 329 pp. Paper, $33.00, isbn 978-0-16-083324-3.)
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