Recent Scholarship
Latino/a
Avant-Mier, Roberto, “Latinos in the Garage: A Genealogical Examination of the Latino/a Presence and Influence in Garage Rock (And Rock and Pop Music),” Popular Music and Society, 31 (Dec. 2008), 555–74.
Carson, Scott Alan, “The Stature and Body Mass of Mexicans in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 39 (Autumn 2008), 211–32.
Correia, David, “‘Rousers of the Rabble’ in the New Mexico Land Grant War: La Alianza Federal De Mercedes and the Violence of the State,” Antipode, 40 (Sept. 2008), 561–83.
Davis, Roger P., “‘Service Not Power’: The Early Years of the Nebraska Commission on Mexican-Americans, 1971–1975,” Nebraska History, 89 (Summer 2008), 67–83.
De León, Arnoldo, “Mexican Americans in the Edwards Plateau and Trans-Pecos Region, 1900–2000: A Demographic Study,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (Oct. 2008), 149–70.
Galán, Francis X., “The Chirino Boys: Spanish Soldier-Pioneers from Los Adaes on the Louisiana-Texas Borderlands,” East Texas Historical Journal, 46 (no. 2, 2008), 42–58.
Miura, Junko, “Tekisasu ni okeru mekishikan no soshikikatudo, 1910nen–1929nen” (Mexican political organizations in Texas, 1910–1929: The attempts of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants to move beyond the dichotomous concept of ethnic identities), Hokudai-Shigaku (Sapporo), 47 (2007), 1–27. In Japanese.
Pilcher, Jeffrey M., “Who Chased Out the ‘Chili Queens’? Gender, Race, and Urban Reform in San Antonio, Texas, 1880–1943,” Food & Foodways, 16 (July 2008), 173–200.
Weise, Julie M., “Mexican Nationalisms, Southern Racisms: Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the U.S. South, 1908–1939,” American Quarterly, 60 (Sept. 2008), 749–77.
Buelna, Enrique Meza, “Resistance from the Margins: Mexican American Radical Activism in Los Angeles, 1930–1970” (University of California, Irvine, 2007). Order No. DA3293070.
Contreras, Eduardo A., “The Politics of Community Development: Latinos, Their Neighbors, and the State in San Francisco, 1960s and 1970s” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3300427.
Rivera, Ruben, “Alberto Rembao (1895–1962): Mexican American Protestant for Internationalism and Christian Holism” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3298673.
Navarro, Sharon A., Latina Legislator: Leticia van de Putte and the Road to Leadership. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. x, 178 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-062-2.)
Nevins, Francis M., and Gary D. Keller, The Cisco Kid: American Hero, Hispanic Roots. (Tempe: Bilingual Press, 2008. xiv, 262 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-1-931010-48-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-1-931010-49-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Overmyer-Velázquez, Mark, ed., Latino America: A State-by-State Encyclopedia. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. Vol. 1, Alabama–Missouri: xxiv, 473 pp. Vol. 2, Montana–Wyoming: viii, 484 pp. $175.00/set, isbn 978-0-313-34116-8/set.)
Ruiz, Vicki L., From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi, 258 pp. Cloth, $99.00, isbn 978-0-19-537478-0. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-19-537477-3.) Tenth anniversary edition.
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