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Mestizos Come Home! - Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity (Hardcover)
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Mestizos Come Home! - Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity (Hardcover)
Series: Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Américas Series
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Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has described U.S. and Latin
American culture as continually hobbled by amnesia - unable, or
unwilling, to remember the influence of mestizos and indigenous
populations. In Mestizos Come Home! author Robert Con Davis-Undiano
documents the great awakening of Mexican American and Latino
culture since the 1960s that has challenged this omission in
collective memory. He maps a new awareness of the United States as
intrinsically connected to the broader context of the Americas. At
once native and new to the American Southwest, Mexican Americans
have ""come home"" in a profound sense: they have reasserted their
right to claim that land and U.S. culture as their own. Mestizos
Come Home! explores key areas of change that Mexican Americans have
brought to the United States. These areas include the recognition
of mestizo identity, especially its historical development across
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the re-emergence of
indigenous relationships to land; and the promotion of Mesoamerican
conceptions of the human body. Clarifying and bridging critical
gaps in cultural history, Davis-Undiano considers important
artifacts from the past and present, connecting the casta (caste)
paintings of eighteenth-century Mexico to modern-day artists
including John Valadez, Alma López, and Luis A. Jiménez Jr. He
also examines such community celebrations as Day of the Dead, Cinco
de Mayo, and lowrider car culture as examples of mestizo influence
on mainstream American culture. Woven throughout is the search for
meaning and understanding of mestizo identity. A large-scale
landmark account of Mexican American culture, Mestizos Come Home!
shows that mestizos are essential to U.S. national culture. As an
argument for social justice and a renewal of America's democratic
ideals, this book marks a historic cultural homecoming.
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