Running the United States-Mexican Border: 1909 through the Present by Gary D. Keller

“…The third shows how contemporary Chicano/Latino border films function to subvert and debunk those same conventions. …”
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On Strike and On Stage: Migration, Mobilization, and the Cultural Work of El Teatro Campesino by Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder

“…Through makeshift performances along the picket line, the farmworkers and their creative visionary, Luis Valdez, innovated Chicano/a performance and created an activist aesthetic that has continued to influence Chicano/a performance and art. …”
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The Magic of Blood by Jorge Mariscal

“… Gilb’s short story collection encourages students in a Chicano Literature course to analyze “class, gender, and ethnicity together.” …”
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Recovered History: Chicanx Representation in the Dual Credit Classroom by Stephens Ronnie K.

“…The combination of research and critical inquiry is vital to instructing students on the realities of Chicano relations and introducing them to the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, a key element of American history that is not only conspicuously absent from most K-12 curricula but also an inescapable influence on identity formation and contemporary discussions around Mexican American relations. …”
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From Zorro to Jennifer Lopez: US-Latino History and Film for the EFL-Classroom by Markus Heide

“…-Latinos—in Hollywood film and of self-representation in Chicano film are addressed in the last part of the essay.…”
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En la frontera de Cormac McCarthy by Galo Cevallos

“…El relato de la novela nos sumerge en aquella inconmensurable realidad, no es sin embargo la realidad del chicano que se aventura al sueño americano, es la visión de Billy (personaje principal) vaquero norteamericano que mira México, lugar diverso, caótico. …”
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Dynamics beetween 'old' and 'new' ethnicities and multiple identities in Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo by Branka Kalogjera

“… The paper takes Candra Cisneros'  epic semi-biographical novel Caramelo asa literary insight into dynamics  between generations  within  a single ethnic (Chicano)  community,  and compares  it against classics  of the genre in its shifting  definition  of one's  ethnic identity;  here the postmodern approach of entwining fiction and fact and awarding them equallegitimacy mirrors the possibility of embracing multiple identities, as exemplified by the novel's protagonist. …”
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Ti-Girl Power: American Utopianism in the Queer Superhero Text by Matt Yockey

“…By doing so, he rearticulates that marginality as an actualization of the promise of pluralistic utopianism inherent in American society. As a Chicano and fan of Silver Age superhero comic books himself, Henandez also realizes this ethos for himself in the very creation of this work.…”
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Translating Alejandro Morales’ Reto en el paraiso into French : the Implications of Translating a Spanglish Text as well as its cultural dimensions. by Laura Wey

“…This thesis first analyses the context and linguistic mechanisms of Spanglish within Chicano literature. Then the issue of multilingual translation is examined through the case study of A. …”
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Two Guillermos, several boundaries: transnational identity performances in Guillermo Verdecchia and Guillermo Gómez-Peña by Sonia Torres

“…Through a (at times implicit) dialogue with critical texts that problematize Latin American and Latino identitary constructions as being fluid, this essay analyzes representations of American (understood here in its more ample sense) border identities, or identities in transit, in the work of two intellectuals who opt for identifying themselves as both Latin American exiles and Latinos: performatic authors/actors Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a self-proclaimed "Chicano-ized Mexican"; and Argentine Canadian Guillermo Verdecchia. …”
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El idioma y sus avatares en Rubén Darío. Anglicismos y panlenguaje // The language and its vicissitudes in Rubén Darío: Anglicisms and panlenguaje by María del Rocío Oviedo Pérez de Tudela

“…Moreover, he anticipates what will later happen in the case of Spanglish and Chicano languages, on the level of interchange and miscegenation of languages in contact.…”
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Beyond “fixed” and “mixed” racial paradigms: Beyond “fixed” and “mixed” racial paradigms: by Laura Lomas

“…Este artigo justapõe a proliferação do discurso sobre hispânicos no período que segue o pós-censo 2000 dos EUA com as representações performáticas
 de identidade cultural americana realizadas pelo mexicano-chicano Guillermos Gómez-Peña e pela indígena-Canadense Monique Mojíca. …”
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Whole issue by Language Value

“…The use and abuse of language by a Chicano from Aztlán (both words unknown). Nephtalí de León Book and Multimedia Reviews  Koritha Mitchell. …”
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Crítica poscolonial desde las prácticas políticas del feminismo antirracista by Ochy Curiel

“…Trazando un recorrido que va desde los movimientos feministas negros en los Estados Unidos, pasando por el feminismo chicano, el feminismo afrolatino y el feminismo indígena, la autora muestra que la teoría poscolonial se beneficiaría mucho de los grandes aportes que estos movimientos políticos han hecho al pensamiento sobre la dominación colonial.…”
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Intercultural Communication in the Work of Leslie Marmon Silko by Irina Chirica

“… The paper discusses Leslie Marmon Silko’s contribution as a writer born and bred in the Four-Corner Area of the United States (where the states of Utah, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico come together), a contact zone characterized by the meeting of three cultures: Pueblo, Chicano and Anglo-American. A mixed-race woman, Silko was perhaps the most suitable person, because of her family heritage and her life at the limits of the Laguna Pueblo, to explore multiculturalism from both a Native and a Euro-American perspective. …”
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Crítica poscolonial desde las prácticas políticas del feminismo Antirracista by Ochy Curiel

“…Trazando un recorrido que va desde los movimientos feministas negros en los Estados Unidos, pasando por el feminismo chicano, el feminismo afrolatino y el feminismo indígena, la autora muestra que la teoría poscolonial se beneficiaría mucho de los grandes aportes que estos movimientos políticos han hecho al pensamiento sobre la dominación colonial.…”
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Cisneros’ Code-Mixed Narrative and its Implications for Translation by María José García Vizcaíno

“…The pragmatic consequences of code-switching in the field of literary translation, especially in the case of Chicano novels that are written in English but code-switches to Spanish for pragmatic, narrative and stylistic purposes have barely been studied so far. …”
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Intercultural Communication in the Work of Leslie Marmon Silko by Irina Chirica

“… The paper discusses Leslie Marmon Silko’s contribution as a writer born and bred in the Four-Corner Area of the United States (where the states of Utah, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico come together), a contact zone characterized by the meeting of three cultures: Pueblo, Chicano and Anglo-American. A mixed-race woman, Silko was perhaps the most suitable person, because of her family heritage and her life at the limits of the Laguna Pueblo, to explore multiculturalism from both a Native and a Euro-American perspective. …”
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Oscar Zeta Acosta and Nepantla: The Conceptual In-between by Eric Bergman

“…Nearly every character in the novel is described in terms of his or her ethnicity, often derogatorily, including the narrator, which, understood as satire, goes beyond the nationalism prevalent in the Chicano Movement. Understood as a religious pilgrimage, the narration develops from a Mexican American Catholic upbringing, to Baptist Anglo Protestantism and ultimately into a form of Aztec religious coding that is in-between inherited and constructed identity categories and framed as a creative nepantlera space and as a choice.…”
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Traducir textos híbridos: apuntes sobre la traducción al castellano de Johnny Tenorio de Carlos Morton by Elena Errico

“…En este trabajo analizo la traducción al español de una obra del dramaturgo chicano Carlos Morton, Johnny Tenorio (Morton 1988), llevada a cabo por Eduardo Rodríguez Solís (Morton 1999). …”
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