Stereotypes of Mexican-American women and the lack of their representation in research literature contribute to misrepresentations of Mexican-American culture and their invisibility. In this qualitative study, Mexican-American women were interviewed and their life histories examined using an ethnographic and hermeneutical phenomenological approach.

This book surveys the people, events, and conditions that shaped Mexican American identity in the Southwestern United States after 1913. The Quest for Tejano Identity was written as a study of Mexican American consciousness, and a history of the assumptions and intellectual responses of Mexican Americans in south Texas. The work uses history to inquire why different ethnic groups think, act and speak as they do as they encounter American society.

Attempts to explain how Chicana literature in three genres - memoir, folklore, and fiction - arose at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands of Texas and Mexico. This book examines three women writers spanning the years 1900-1950 for their contributions to Chicana writing in its earliest years.

Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature looks at the ways in which Chicana/o authors who have experienced cultural disconnection or marginalization because of their gender, gender politics and sexual orientation attempt to forge a connection back to Chicana/o culture through their use of liberation theology.

This book shows the mechanisms by which cultural differences reinforce structural privilege and disadvantage in the informal process of mediated negotiation. Are all people equally likely to pursue their own material self-interest in the negotiation process used in small claims mediation? Did Latinos and Anglos bargain more generously with members of their own group? These central questions, derived from theories of ethnic and gender differences, concerned how, and to what degree, culture, structure, and individual choice operated to alter the goals, bargaining process and outcomes, expressed...

Despite being the state with perhaps the longest history of Latino presence, power and influence, Texas has very much under-represented Latinos in its schools history curriculum. Through an analysis of teaching materials and curriculum goals, Noboa investigates the extent to which this significant minority is effectively excluded from American historical narrative.

Analysing 73 interviews with Hispanic immigrants in Central Virginia, this book offers a look at the views & circumstances of immigrants. It provides an examination of the migration trend, and argues that important policy changes are needed to benefit and protect both the new arrivals and their wider communities.