Mestizos Come Home!, 19: Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity

by Robert Con Davis-Undiano

Book Overview

Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has described U.S. and Latin American culture as continually hobbled by amnesia--unable, or unwilling, to remember the influence of mestizos and indigenous populations. In Mestizos Come Home author Robert Con Davis-Undiano documents the great awakening of Mexican American and Latino culture since the 1960s that has challenged this omission in collective memory. He maps a new awareness of the United States as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806157194
• ISBN13: 9780806157191
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"