Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse

by Carl Gutiérrez-Jones

Book Overview

Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, Carl Guti rrez-Jones argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. Rethinking the Borderlands is an insightful and provocative exploration of the ways Chicano and Chicana artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers engage this history in order to resist the disenfranchising effects of legal institutions, including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520085795
• ISBN13: 9780520085794
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"