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Latina/os and World War II: Mobility, Agency, and Ideology

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Availability:In StockContributor:Maggie Rivas-Rodr?guez (Editor)Publish date:2014-04-15Pages:328
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9781477307625ISBN-10:1477307621UPC:9781477307625Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United States, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:American, 20th Century, World War IISize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.74 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SC4NB88KDR

The first book-length study of Latina/o experiences in World War II over a wide spectrum of identities and ancestries-from Cuban American, Spanish American, and Mexican American segments to the under-studied Afro-Latino experience-Latina/os and World War II probes the controversial aspects of Latina/o soldiering and citizenship in the war, the repercussions of which defined the West during the twentieth century. The editors also offer a revised, more accurate tabulation of the number of Latina/os who served in the war.

Spanning imaginative productions, such as vaudeville and the masculinity of the soldado razo theatrical performances; military segregation and the postwar lives of veterans; Tejanas on the homefront; journalism and youth activism; and other underreported aspects of the wartime experience, the essays collected in this volume showcase rarely seen recollections. Whether living in Florida in a transformed community or deployed far from home (including Mexican Americans who were forced to endure the Bataan Death March), the men and women depicted in this collection yield a multidisciplinary, metacritical inquiry. The result is a study that challenges celebratory accounts and deepens the level of scholarly inquiry into the realm of ideological mobility for a unique cultural crossroads. Taking this complex history beyond the realm of war narratives, Latina/os and World War II situates these chapters within the broader themes of identity and social change that continue to reverberate in postcolonial lives.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9781477307625ISBN-10:1477307621UPC:9781477307625Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United States, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:American, 20th Century, World War IISize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.74 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SC4NB88KDR

Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez is Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and the founder and director of the U.S. Latino & Latina World War II Oral History Project (now Voces Oral History Project). Her previous books include, most recently, Beyond the Latino WWII Hero: The Social and Political Legacy of a Generation.

B. V. Olguín is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. A poet, translator, and literary critic, he is the author of La Pinta: Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics.


Publisher: University of Texas Press

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