The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture

by John-Michael Rivera

Winner of the 2006 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary Studies, presented by the Western Literature Association
In The Emergence of Mexican America, John-Michael Rivera examines the cultural, political, and legal representations of Mexican Americans and the development of US capitalism and nationhood. Beginning with the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 and continuing through the period of mass repatriation of US Mexican...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814775578
• ISBN13: 9780814775578
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"