Assault on Mexican American Collective Memory, 2010-2015: Swimming with Sharks

by Rodolfo F. Acuña

Book Overview

This book uses a micro-narrative structure to explore the assault on the collective memory of Mexican Americans in the Southwest United States from 2010-2016. These communities' survival depends on their histories and identities, which are being quickly erased by gentrification and dispersal, neoliberalism and privatization. This issue is most apparent in the education system, where Mexican American students receive inferior educations and lack access...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498548237
• ISBN13: 9781498548236
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"