Promising Problem

CARLOS KEVIN BLANTON is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter One. Looking In while Stepping Out: Growth, Reassessment, and the Promising Problem of the New Chicana/o History (Carlos Kevin Blanton)Chapter Two. The Accidental Historian; or, How I Found My Groove in Legal History (Michael A. Olivas)Chapter Three. Moving beyond AztlÁn: Disrupting Nationalism and Geographic Essentialism in Chicano/a History (Lilia FernÁndez)Chapter Four. Chicana/o History as Southern History: Race, Place, and the US South (Perla M. Guerrero)Chapter Five. Sacred Spaces: Race, Resistance, and the Politics of Chicana/o and Latina/o Religious History (Felipe Hinojosa)Chapter Six. Chicanas in the US-Mexican Borderlands: Transborder Conversations of Feminism and Anarchism, 1905–1938 (Sonia HernÁndez)Chapter Seven. Eastside Imaginaries: Toward a Relational and Transnational Chicana/o Cultural History (Luis Alvarez)Select Bibliography of Recent Publications in Chicana/o HistoryContributorsIndex

"[A Promising Problem's] essays offer fresh insights that make this edited collection a worthwhile read." (Pacific Historical Review) "What is fresh about these essays is their insistence that a multitude of actors, both within and outside of Latina/o communities, has shaped Chicana/o history and identity...A Promising Problem both highlights new work and raises...important questions for continued debate." (Western Historical Quarterly) "The essays assembled [in A Promising Problem] represent a variety of topics and subfields, though Blanton is careful to note that the volume is far from exhaustive or representative of all Chicana/o history. Nonetheless, the collection captures well the field's 'promising problem.'" (Journal of Southern History) "While the essays [in A Promising Problem] represent the broad spectrum of Mexican American history, all authors speak to each other by referencing each other's work and pointing out common findings across chapters. This technique makes for a much more integrated and tightly-woven anthology than is common among such books, indicating that much thought went into crafting the study." (Bulletin of Spanish Studies)