Ideas defer to no border - least of all the idea of belonging. So
where does one belong, and what does belonging even mean, when a
border inscribes one's identity? This dilemma, so critical to the
ethnic Mexican community, is at the heart of Homeland, an
intellectual, cultural, and literary history of belonging in ethnic
Mexican thought through the twentieth century. Belonging, as Aaron
E. SAnchez's sees it, is an interwoven collection of ideas that
defines human connectedness and that shapes the contours of human
responsibilities and our obligations to one another. In Homeland,
SAnchez traces these ideas of belonging to their global, national,
and local origins, and shows how they have transformed over time.
For pragmatic, ideological, and political reasons, ethnic Mexicans
have adapted, adopted, and abandoned ideas about belonging as
shifting conceptions of citizenship disrupted old and new ways of
thinking about roots and shared identity around the global. From
the Mexican Revolution to the Chicano Movement, in Texas and across
the nation, journalists, poets, lawyers, labor activists, and
people from all walks of life have reworked or rejected citizenship
as a concept that explained the responsibilities of people to the
state and to one another. A wealth of sources - poems, plays,
protests, editorials, and manifestos - demonstrate how ethnic
Mexicans responded to changes in the legitimate means of belonging
in the twentieth century. With competing ideas from both sides of
the border they expressed how they viewed their position in the
region, the nation, and the world - in ways that sometimes united
and often divided the community. A transnational history that
reveals how ideas move across borders and between communities,
Homeland offers welcome insight into the defining and changing
concept of belonging in relation to citizenship. In the process,
the book marks another step in a promising new direction for
Mexican American intellectual history.
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