The Aztlan Mexican Studies Reader, 1974-2016

This set of essays explores the ongoing cultural and political connections between Chicana/o and Mexican history. Edited and introduced by Hctor Caldern, The Aztln Mexican Studies Reader, 19742016 presents thirteen previously published essays together with three essays written specifically for this collection, making a rigorous case for the contributions of Chicana/o studies to the transnational study of Mexico. The first essay, by Toms Almaguer, which was also the first to be published, sets the stage with a historical overview that relates how the Chicano movement was rooted in the soil of conquest and colonialism in Mexico. Subsequent essays discuss a range of topics that stress interconnections between Chicana/os and Mexicans: transborder issues such as immigration and labor; Chicana/o and Mexican fiction; femicide and racism in Mexico and their reverberations on both sides of the border; and the development of Mexican art formsincluding muralism, cinema, and musicin Mexico and the United States.