Journal articles: 'American literature Mexican Americans in literature'

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Donato, Rubén, and Jarrod Hanson. "Legally White, Socially “Mexican”: The Politics of De Jure and De Facto School Segregation in the American Southwest." Harvard Educational Review 82, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 202–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.82.2.a562315u72355106.

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The history of Mexican American school segregation is complex, often misunderstood, and currently unresolved. The literature suggests that Mexican Americans experienced de facto segregation because it was local custom and never sanctioned at the state level in the American Southwest. However, the same literature suggests that Mexican Americans experienced de jure segregation because school officials implemented various policies that had the intended effect of segregating Mexican Americans. Rubén Donato and Jarrod S. Hanson argue in this article that although Mexican Americans were legally categorized as “White,” the American public did not recognize the category and treated Mexican Americans as socially “colored” in their schools and communities. Second, although there were no state statutes that sanctioned the segregation of Mexican Americans, it was a widespread trend in the American Southwest. Finally, policies and practices historically implemented by school officials and boards of education should retroactively be considered de jure segregation.

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Fought, Carmen. "Language as a representation of Mexican American identity." English Today 26, no. 3 (August 24, 2010): 44–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078410000131.

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Demographic data indicate that the English of Mexican Americans is destined to play a key role in the sociolinguistic study of language variation in the United States. In fact, Mexican American speakers are reported to account for more than 12.5% of the U.S. population. In 2003, the U.S. Census released data showing that Latinos and Latinas had replaced African Americans as the largest minority ethnic group in the U.S., and by 2007, 29.2 million Americans listed their ancestry as Mexican (Pew Hispanic Center, 2009). Moreover, in addition to the large numbers of Mexicans (first generation) and Mexican Americans (second generation) living in the Southwest, we are now seeing a new representation of these ethnic groups in other areas, such as the South. For example, between 1990 and 2000, North Carolina experienced a higher percentage of growth in its Mexican American population than any other state (Wolfram, Carter & Moriello, 2004).These statistics are important with respect to language because they reveal that a large and increasing population of English speakers in the U.S. are Latinos and Latinas of Mexican origin. Our notion of American English, then, must be extended to include the variety traditionally spoken by the children of Mexican immigrants in the U.S., generally referred to in the literature as Chicano English. In addition, if we look at the Mexican American population as a whole, we will find a number of other varieties of English spoken.

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Confiac, Nathalie, Melanie T. Turk, Rick Zoucha, and Marilyn McFarland. "Mexican American Parental Knowledge and Perceptions of Childhood Obesity: An Integrative Review." Hispanic Health Care International 18, no. 2 (September 20, 2019): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1540415319873400.

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Introduction: For the past two decades, childhood obesity has remained a national public health concern, particularly among Hispanic populations. Multiple cross-sectoral obesity prevention strategies have been implemented yet remain unsuccessful in generating sustainable lifestyle changes. Method: The purpose of this integrative review, using the Whittemore and Knafl method, was to examine the literature from 2009 to 2018 regarding Mexican American parental knowledge and perceptions of childhood obesity. The CINAHL, PubMed, PsycINFO, and ERIC databases were used to search the literature, and 13 peer-reviewed articles met the inclusion criteria. Results: Three main themes emerged from the literature synthesis: (1) parental misperception of child body weight and size, (2) influence of cultural health and growth beliefs on parental perception of child weight, and (3) parental perspectives of causes and consequences of childhood obesity and how to address it. However, cultural variations in parental perceptions were found; therefore, attempts to generalize Mexican Americans’ cultural practices should be avoided. Conclusion: Studies using qualitative approaches are needed to gain deeper insights about Mexican American culture regarding children’s health as it relates to body weight, the roles of different family members in the Mexican American childrearing tradition, and the impact of their associated health beliefs.

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KEVANE, BRIDGET. "The Hispanic Absence in the North American Literary Canon." Journal of American Studies 35, no. 1 (April 2001): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875801006545.

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I recently completed a book of interviews (Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers, co-edited with Juanita Heredia, University of New Mexico Press, 2000) with ten of the most prominent Latina writers in the US; Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferré, Cristina García, Nicholasa Mohr, Cherríe Moraga, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago and Helena María Viramontes. These women, Cuban, Dominican, Mexican and Puerto Rican Americans, raised issues that ranged from the craft of writing to the inherent problems of national identities. The themes generated in our conversations with these women – their doubled ethnic identities, their complicated relationship to their communities, their difficulties in representing their communities and, finally, their work as part of the larger American canon – revealed a powerful discourse about what it means to be Latina American in the United States. After spending two years talking with these women, it is evident to me that Latina literature is a vital part of American literature and should be included in any study of comparative American literatures.

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Martín-Rodríguez, Manuel M. "Recovering Chicano/a Literary Histories: Historiography beyond Borders." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 120, no. 3 (May 2005): 796–805. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081205x63868.

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This article underscores the need to reconstruct Mexican American literary historiography by locating and analyzing pre–Chicano/a movement critical sources. Consideration of how Mexican Americans saw their literature at different junctures in the past will ensure that we do not impose our own aesthetic and political criteria as we reinterpret older texts. I analyze a 1959 literary history of New Mexico and Colorado in order to explore how a recovery of this particular text would intervene in current debates in the field of Chicana/o studies, most prominently the tension between nationalism and regional studies, on the one hand, and transnationalism, on the other. My analysis demonstrates that Mexican Americans and Chicanos/as have shared literary tastes and cultural capital with other Latinas/os and Latin Americans and that consequently Chicano/a literary history should be a discipline that goes beyond borders.

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SHELTON, LOIS M., SHARON M. DANES, and MICKI EISENMAN. "ROLE DEMANDS, DIFFICULTY IN MANAGING WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT, AND MINORITY ENTREPRENEURS." Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 13, no. 03 (September 2008): 315–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1084946708000983.

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By exploring difficulty in managing work-family conflict for minority entrepreneurs, this study considers work-family issues for business persons who have received little attention in the literature, yet form new businesses at rates exceeding the national average. We employ a role theory perspective to examine two major research questions using a nationally representative sample of African-American, Mexican-American, Korean-American, and White business owners. Specifically, we ask: do minority business owners experience greater difficulty in managing conflicts between work and family roles when compared to White entrepreneurs? And does difficulty in managing work-family conflict negatively impact business performance? Empirical results show that Korean-American and Mexican-American entrepreneurs have greater role demands, and subsequently, higher levels of difficulty in managing work-family conflict than African-Americans and Whites. Furthermore, difficulty in managing work-family conflict negatively impacts business performance whether performance is measured through the perception of the business owner, or through more objective financial measures. We contribute to the literature on minority entrepreneurs as well as expand the work-family conflict literature by shifting the focus from employed individuals to entrepreneurs, and by emphasizing the effect of such conflict on performance rather than well-being.

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Schocket, Eric. "Redefining American Proletarian Literature: Mexican Americans and the Challenge to the Tradition of Radical Dissent." Journal of American Culture 24, no. 1-2 (April 6, 2001): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734x.2001.tb00030.x.

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Schocket, Eric. "Redefining American Proletarian Literature: Mexican Americans and the Challenge to the Tradition of Radical Dissent." Journal of American & Comparative Cultures 24, no. 1-2 (March 2001): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1537-4726.2001.2401_59.x.

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Rostagno, Irene. "Waldo Frank's Crusade for Latin American Literature." Americas 46, no. 1 (July 1989): 41–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1007393.

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Waldo Frank, who is now forgotten in Latin America, was once the most frequently read and admired North American author there. Though his work is largely neglected in the U.S., he was at one time the leading North American expert on Latin American writing. His name looms large in tracing the careers of Latin American writers in this country before 1940. Long before Franklin D. Roosevelt launched the Good Neighbor policy, Frank brought back to his countrymen news of Latin American culture.Frank went to South America when he was almost forty. The youthful dreams of Frank and his fellow pre-World War I writers and artists to make their country a fit place for cultural renaissance that would change society had waned with the onset of the twenties.1 But they had not completely vanished. Disgruntled by the climate of "normalcy" prevailing in America after World War I, he turned to Latin America. He started out in the Southwest. The remnants of Mexican culture he found in Arizona and New Mexico enticed him to venture further into the Hispanic world. In 1921 he traveled extensively in Spain and in 1929 spent six months exploring Latin America.

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Voronchenko, Tatiana. "Teaching Mexican-American Literature in Siberia: Global Perspective on Universal Values in Character Education of Students." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 5 (July 23, 2017): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v3i5.2005.

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Nair María, Anaya-Ferreira. "Teaching Literature under the Volcano." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 131, no. 5 (October 2016): 1523–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2016.131.5.1523.

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I Have Been Teaching Literatures in English for Over Twenty-Five Years at the Universidad Nacional AutóNoma de México (Unam), Mexico's national university, where I received my undergraduate degree. My formative years were marked, undoubtedly, by the universalist ideal that defines the motto of the university, “Por mi raza hablará el espíritu” (“The spirit will speak on behalf of my race”). I cannot recall whether I was aware of the motto's real meaning, or of its cultural and social implications, but I suppose I took for granted that what I was taught as a student was as much part of a Mexican culture as it was of a “universal” one. Reading English literature at the department of modern languages and literatures in the late 1970s meant that I was exposed to a canonical view of literature shaped as much by The Oxford Anthology of English Literature and by our lecturers' (primarily) aesthetic approach to it as by the idea of “universal” literature conveyed in the textbooks for elementary and secondary education in Mexico. This conviction that as a Mexican I belonged to “Western” civilization greatly diminished when in the early 1980s I traveled to London for graduate studies and was almost shattered by the attitudes I encountered while conducting my doctoral research on the image of Latin America in British fiction. I was often asked whether I had ever seen a car (let alone ridden in one), or if there was electricity in my country, and the ambivalent, mostly negative, view of Latin Americans and Mexicans in what I read (authors like Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, and Aldous Huxley, as well as more than three hundred adventure novels set in the continent) forced me to question the idea that one ought to read literature merely for the enjoyment (and admiration) of it or to analyze it with assumptions that fall roughly in the category of “expressive,” or “mimetic,” criticism, which was common in those days and often took the form of monographic studies, which relied heavily on paraphrase.

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Taylor, Claire. "Chicano nations: the hemispheric origins of Mexican American literature." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 49, no. 1 (February 2013): 124–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2012.741339.

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LIE, NADIA. "Postcolonialism and Latin American literature: the case of Carlos Fuentes." European Review 13, no. 1 (January 20, 2005): 139–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106279870500013x.

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Postcolonialism is briefly presented as an academic approach in contemporary literary studies, with two opposite currents as far as the study of Latin American literature is concerned. The first constructs the relationship between Latin American and European literature as oppositional, whereas the second focuses in a more harmonious way on their interrelationship. It is argued that both currents cluster around a divergent reading of the ‘cannibal’ metaphor. The article then centres on the position of the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, who covers both postcolonial tendencies. This is shown by focusing upon a specific case, his early novella Aura. Attention is paid to the tension between Europe and Latin America, both on a literary level (intertextuality) and on a historical level (colonization and nation-building).

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Kofman, Andrey F. "Matriarch of Latin American Studies in Russia. Vera Kuteishchikova’s Birth Centenary." Literature of the Americas, no. 9 (2020): 283–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2020-9-283-307.

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The paper is dedicated to the famous Russian Latin Americanist Vera Nikolaevna Kuteishchikova (1919–2012), who became the second Russian woman after A. Kollontai to be awarded with the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle for her merits in the study of Mexican literature. However, V. Kuteishchikova’s specialization was not limited to the Mexican literature; her academic interests included a wide range of issues. The paper demonstrates that she laid the foundations for the scientific study of Latin American literature in Russia and outlined the ways for further research in the field. Therefore, V. Kuteishchikova’s life and work are considered in an inseparable context with the development of Latin American literary studies in Russia. The list of the Russian editions and translations of Latin American writers and the number of critical works published before the 1960s clearly confirm the fact that until then Latin American literary studies did not exist as an independent branch of philological science in Russia, since Russian scholars had a very vague notion of the Latin American literature. The first research work in philology on the Latin American literature was the monograph by V.N. Kuteishchikova Latin American Novel in the XX century (1964). The paper pays special attention to this significant work. An analysis of this book proves that its author identified and revealed a number of essential topics and problems that would be center of Latin American studies in Russia. With an amazing sagacity V.N. Kuteishchikova mapped out a program for Latin American studies for half a century ahead. These ideas were developed in her work in 1970s, in particular, in New Latin American Novel (1976), co-written with her husband, L.S. Ospovat. The paper traces the participation of V.N. Kuteishchikova in the creation of the academic five-volume History of Latin American Literatures; analyzes her last book Moscow – Mexico – Moscow. A Lifelong Road (2000), gives a spiritual portrait of the Russian scholar.

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Michno, Jeff. "Greeting and leave-taking in Texas." Spanish in Context 14, no. 1 (April 10, 2017): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.14.1.01mic.

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Abstract The present study reveals how 16 Mexican-Americans residing in Texas perceive and follow politeness norms (e.g. Brown and Levinson 1987; Locher and Watts 2005; Scollon and Scollon 2001) related to greetings and leave-takings in different cultural and linguistic contexts. Data from online questionnaires identify a significant difference in perceived level of social expectation (i.e. politeness) for employing the speech acts with Spanish- versus non-Spanish speakers. The data support previous research in identifying a sense of solidarity among Mexican-American extended families, but also suggest that this bond extends to other Spanish-speaking acquaintances. Better understanding of these norms should facilitate inter-cultural exchanges between linguistic in- and out-group members.

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Cagle, Carolyn Spence, Jo Nell Wells, Mary Luna Hollen, and Pat Bradley. "Weaving Theory and Literature for Understanding Mexican American Cancer Caregiving." Hispanic Health Care International 5, no. 4 (December 1, 2007): 149–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/154041507783095821.

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Scheidler, James M. "Mexican American English language learners in Arizona: a literature review." International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies 5, no. 3/4 (2014): 314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijtcs.2014.067828.

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Camarillo, Albert M. "Looking Back on Chicano History." Pacific Historical Review 82, no. 4 (November 2012): 496–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2013.82.4.496.

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In the forty years since the publication of the special issue devoted to Chicano history in the Pacific Historical Review in 1973, the literature on Mexican Americans has flourished. In the early 1970s, the nascent subfield of Chicano history was established, and in subsequent decades it reached maturity as the number of historians writing in this area increased significantly, as did the number of monographs and articles. By the early twenty-first century, the importance of historical studies of Mexican Americans is reflected in the literature of many subfields of U.S. history—labor, women, U.S.-Mexican borderlands, urban, immigration—and in the curriculum of colleges and universities across the nation. This article provides a personal perspective on the origins, foundations, and maturation of Chicano history.

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Carter, Phillip M., and Tonya Wolford. "Cross-generational prosodic convergence in South Texas Spanish." Spanish in Context 13, no. 1 (April 14, 2016): 29–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.13.1.02car.

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This study investigates variation in the prosodic system of Spanish in the speech of three generations of Mexican Americans living in a Mexican American-majority community in South Texas, United States, characterized by high levels of bilingualism and long-term, sustained contact between languages. Low and Grabe’s (1995) Pairwise Variability Index was used to quantify prosodic rhythm in the Spanish and the English of community members across generations in order to: (1) assess differences between contact and non-contact varieties of Spanish, (2) investigate the cross-generational stability of prosodic rhythm in the community, and (3) ascertain the type of influence from English, if any, on Spanish prosody. Findings show that while the oldest generations maintain separate systems of rhythm in Spanish and English, the youngest generation demonstrates prosodic convergence.

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Bagley, Carl, and Ricardo Castro-Salazar. "Critical Arts–Based Research: A Performance of Provocation." Qualitative Inquiry 25, no. 9-10 (December 18, 2017): 945–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800417746425.

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The article from a critical race theory standpoint draws on data from life history interviews with undocumented Mexican-Americans, and live performance work with Mexican-American artists, to reflect on the methodological issues raised by qualitative research addressing the ways in which critical arts–based research affects research participants as artists, subjects, and audience. To date, arts-based research literature has tended to concentrate on theoretically framing a performance piece within a specific genre (and its acclaimed advantages) and subsequently describing in detail the nature of a performance, an approach which at times means the impact of a performance is accepted uncritically, if not taken for granted. Our intent in this article is to draw on postperformance interviews and correspondence with artists, subjects, and audience members to critically reflect on participant impact, an impact which in this article we are calling a performance of provocation.

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DIETZ, TRACY L. "Patterns of Intergenerational Assistance Within the Mexican American Family." Journal of Family Issues 16, no. 3 (May 1995): 344–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019251395016003006.

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A continuing debate exists in the family literature about the needs of the Mexican American elderly, a rapidly growing population. Supporters of one side of the argument indicate that the Mexican American family is available to care for the needs of the aging Mexican American population whereas the other argues that this is simply a romanticized and stereotypical view. Using a large national data set, this article demonstrates, that the Mexican American family is available for affective support of its elders but does not adequately provide for their instrumental needs. Consequently, it is recommended that policymakers and service providers quickly identify the needs of the older Mexican American population in an effort to provide assistance to them as they have done for other older populations in the United States.

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Vasquez, Jessica M. "MEXICAN MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 7, no. 1 (2010): 51–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x10000226.

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Literature on international migration, assimilation, and transnationalism continues to be concerned with questions about ties that migrants and their descendents have with their homelands, coethnics, and the native-born population. Tomás R. Jiménez's Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity and Joanna Dreby's Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and their Children provide important perspectives on different aspects of the larger phenomenon of international migration from Mexico to the United States that is a consequence of labor demand in the United States, economic need and job scarcity in Mexico, and a global economy. Both books deal with social life that takes place across ethnic boundaries, within ethnic groups, and across national borders. Taking qualitative approaches and dealing with the perennial tension between inclusion and exclusion, these books analyze the experiences and perspectives of Mexican migrants, Mexican children, and Mexican Americans.

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De La Trinidad, Maritza, Stephanie Alvarez, Joy Esquierdo, and Francisco Guajardo. "Historias Americanas: Implementing Mexican American Studies in K-12 Social Studies Curriculum in the Rio Grande Valley." Association of Mexican American Educators Journal 15, no. 2 (September 3, 2021): 36–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.24974/amae.15.2.422.

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This essay contributes to the growing literature on Mexican American Studies in K-12 within the broader field of Ethnic Studies. While most of the literature on the movement for Ethnic Studies within Texas and across the nation mainly focuses on the impact of Ethnic Studies courses on students’ academic success, this essay highlights a professional development program for K-12 social studies teachers in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas entitled Historias Americanas: Engaging History and Citizenship in the Rio Grande Valley, funded by a federal grant. This essay provides an overview of Historias Americanas, the objectives and structure of the program, and the ways in which the program contributes to the discourse on Mexican American Studies in K-12. It also describes the frameworks that form the crux of the professional development process: place-based education and culturally relevant pedagogical frameworks.

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Gross, Ariela J. "Texas Mexicans and the Politics of Whiteness." Law and History Review 21, no. 1 (2003): 195–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3595072.

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These two fascinating articles seek to fill an important lacuna in the burgeoning literature on the legal construction of whiteness. While LatCrit theorists in the legal academy have urged civil rights scholars and race critics to transcend the “black-white paradigm” of U.S. race studies, the majority of legal histories of whiteness have focused on two sets of cases: trials in the southeastern United States in which local courts tried to draw the line between “white” and “negro”; and cases about immigration and naturalization in which Federal courts determined whether particular foreign immigrants were suitably “white” for citizenship. Likewise, although there have been several important social and cultural histories of Texas Mexicans and whiteness in the last fifteen years, they have not considered the legal realm. The time is ripe for attention to the legal history of Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles in Texas, especially as they illuminate the shifting racial identity of Mexican Americans in the Southwest.

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Tucan, Gabriela. "Homes on Borders in Chicano Literature." Romanian Journal of English Studies 16, no. 1 (November 1, 2019): 65–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2019-0008.

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AbstractIn “Borderlands/La Frontera” (1987), Gloria Anzaldúa writes about the “tradition of long walks” (11) across physical and imaginary borders, which defines her Mexican-American people. The borderland is both a space of transit and a state of transition from where the Chicanos venture into unknown territories. Their identity is constructed around and across space(s). In this paper, I seek to examine the Chicanos’ fluid spatial identity in their searches for a real home, in Pat Mora’s “House of Houses”, Sandra Cisneros’ “The House on Mango Street”, Gloria Anzaldúa’s “Borderlands/La Frontera”. I argue that in these literary and autobiographical works, the cosy domestic home is impossible to find because of constant displacement and imposed mobility.

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Hernandez-Jason, Beth. "Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature (review)." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 37, no. 1 (2012): 225–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0014.

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Hegarty, G. "Mexican Americans and the Environment: Tierra y Vida." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 13, no. 2 (July 1, 2006): 276–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/13.2.276.

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García, Nicolas, and Anthony Gonzales. "Cinco Dedos: A Mexican American Studies Framework." Association of Mexican American Educators Journal 15, no. 2 (September 3, 2021): 85–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.24974/amae.15.2.424.

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Mexican American Studies (MAS) courses have been criticized for many years. Legislation in Arizona and Texas have attempted to ban the content. This article pushes back on this attempt of oppression and offers MAS teachers a framework to apply when teaching the content. Using a timeline to depict the years of attempts for Mexican American Studies to be approved, we offer practitioners and researchers an Ethnic Studies framework particularly with MAS courses. Using cultural art, poetry, and literature, MAS teachers can benefit from using the Cinco Dedos framework especially at the secondary (6-12) grade levels. This framework prepares MAS teachers to utilize various Chicanx histories to tell the stories of Mexican American heroes not talked about in traditional American history courses. This article also provides tools to use in secondary MAS classrooms that highlight Mexican American culture for students provided by a MAS teacher. One of the founders of the framework uses this in his MAS course at a high school located in San Antonio, TX.

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Puente, Josué, and Stephanie Alvarez. "Texas Resistance: Mexican American Studies and the Fight Against Whiteness and White Supremacy in K-12 at the Turn of the 21st Century." Association of Mexican American Educators Journal 15, no. 2 (September 3, 2021): 64–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.24974/amae.15.2.423.

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This essay recounts the efforts by various groups throughout Texas with a special emphasis on the Rio Grande Valley to implement Mexican American Studies at the turn of the twenty-first century. We offer a historical timeline of events that demonstrates how the Mexican American Studies course came into existence. We also detail the way in which some Mexican American Studies courses were implemented. In other cases, we describe the way different groups were able to offer professional development to teachers to help them incorporate more Mexican American Studies content in their non-Mexican American studies courses or provide the community with the resources on how to include Mexican American Studies at their school. The common theme throughout is an undeniable resistance and mobilization on the part of many, hundreds, of educators, students, and community members to ensure that the youth do not continue to receive a whitewashed education, to ensure that students receive a more accurate representation of history, culture, language, and literature. In essence, the essay details a very hard-fought battle against White supremacy in the schools at the turn of the twenty-first century in Texas in which Mexican American Studies emerged victorious many steps of the way.

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Romero, Yolanda, Marcienne Rocard, and Edward G. Brown. "The Children of the Sun: Mexican-Americans in the Literature of the United States." Western Historical Quarterly 22, no. 1 (February 1991): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/968740.

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Calvillo, Evelyn Ruiz, and Jacquelyn H. Flaskerud. "Review of Literature on Culture and Pain of Adults with Focus on Mexican-Americans." Journal of Transcultural Nursing 2, no. 2 (January 1991): 16–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104365969100200203.

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Marta Marini, Anna. "The Hybridization Of The Noir Genre As Expression Of Ethnic Heritage: Rafael Navarro’s Sonambulo." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, no. 25 (2021): 137–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ren.2021.i25.07.

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In his ongoing comic book series Sonambulo, versatile artist Rafael Navarro has been able to channel his Mexican American cultural heritage by creating a unique blend of narrative genres. In his work, Navarro exploits classic American film noir as a fundamental reference and hybridizes it with elements distinctive to a shared Chicanx heritage, such as lucha libre cinema, horror folktales, and border-crossing metaphors; the construction of an oneiric dimension helps bring the narrative together, marking it with a peculiar ambiance. Drawing heavily on a diverse range of film genres, as well as ethnocultural pivots, this comic book series carves out a definite space in the panorama of the Mexican American production of popular culture, adding a powerful voice to the expression of US ethnic minorities.

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Arias, Armando A. "Insurgent Aztlán: The Liberating Power of Cultural Resistance." Journal of Developing Societies 36, no. 4 (December 2020): 453–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0169796x20931809.

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This is a book review of Insurgent Aztlán: The Liberating Power of Cultural Resistance, written by Ernesto Todd Mireles and published in 2020 by Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press in Berkeley, California. As the subtitle indicates, this book is about the liberating power of cultural resistance, and in this case the subjects of cultural resistance are Mexican Americans in the South West of the United States of America (USA) who identify themselves as Xicanos. The author, who is a Xicano scholar and organizer, reconstructs the relationship between social and political insurgent theory and Xicano literature, films and myths. Based on decades of organizing experience and a scholarly review of the writings of recognized observers and leaders of national liberation movements, the author provides a remarkable work of scholarship that incorporates not only the essence of earlier resistance writing but also provides a new paradigm of liberation for the particular situation of Mexican Americans in the USA.

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Rodriguez, R. T. "Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries / Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature." American Literature 86, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 197–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079269.

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Hess, Robyn S. "Dropping Out Among Mexican American Youth: Reviewing the Literature Through an Ecological Perspective." Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR) 5, no. 3 (July 2000): 267–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327671espr0503_5.

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Zentella, Yoly. "Mexican American Literature: A Portable Anthology ed. by Dagoberto Gilb, Ricardo Angel Gilb." Journal of Global South Studies 34, no. 1 (2017): 122–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gss.2017.0009.

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Merchant, Linda Garcia. "Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment by Priscilla Solis Ybarra." Western American Literature 54, no. 2 (2019): 207–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wal.2019.0038.

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Maszewska, Jadwiga. "Mexican Village: Josefina Niggli’s Border Crossing Narrative." Text Matters, no. 8 (October 24, 2018): 353–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2018-0021.

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The paper presents Josefina Niggli (1910–83), an American mid-twentieth-century writer who was born and grew up in Mexico, and her novel Mexican Village (1945). A connoisseur of Mexican culture and tradition, and at the same time conscious of the stereotypical perceptions of Mexico in the United States, Niggli saw it as her literary goal to “reveal” the “true” Mexico as she remembered it to her American readers. Somewhat forgotten for several decades, Niggli, preoccupied with issues of marginalization, hybridization, and ambiguity, is now becoming of interest to literary critics as a forerunner of Chicano/a literature. In her novel Mexican Village, set in the times of the Mexican Revolution, she creates a prototypical bicultural and bilingual Chicano protagonist, who becomes witness to the rise of Mexico’s modern national identity.

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Montes-Alcalá, Cecilia. "Code-switching in US Latino literature: The role of biculturalism." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 24, no. 3 (August 2015): 264–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947015585224.

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While mixing languages in natural speech production has often been inaccurately ascribed to illiteracy or lack of linguistic competence, doing so in writing is a long-standing practice in bilingual literature. This practice may fulfill stylistic or aesthetic purposes, be a source of credibility and/or communicate biculturalism, humor, criticism, and ethnicity, among other functions. Here, I analyze a selection of contemporary Spanish–English bilingual literature (poetry, drama, and fiction) written by Mexican American, Nuyorican, and Cuban American authors focusing on the types, and significance, of code-switching (CS) in their works. The aim of the study is to determine to what extent the socio-pragmatic functions that have been attested in natural bilingual discourse are present in literary CS, whether it is mimetic rather than rhetorical, and what differences exist both across literary genres and among the three US Latino groups. I also emphasize the cultural aspect of CS, a crucial element that has often been overlooked in the search for grammatical constraints.

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García, San Juanita. "Racializing “Illegality”: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding How Mexican-origin Women Navigate an Anti-immigrant Climate." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3, no. 4 (June 23, 2017): 474–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2332649217713315.

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By shedding light on how Mexicans are racialized, scholars have brought racism to the forefront of migration research. Still, less is known about how “illegality” complicates racialized experiences, and even less is known about how gender and class further complicate this process. Drawing on 60 interviews with Mexican-origin women in Houston, Texas, this research explores how documented and Mexican American women are racialized, the institutional contexts in which this process occurs, and how women’s racialized experiences relate to feelings of belonging and exclusion. Findings suggest a form of discrimination that is intersectional and imbued within an anti-immigrant climate. “Racializing illegality” unfolds within institutional contexts that include the workplace, criminal justice system, educational institutions, and health care settings. Both immigrant and Mexican American women experience feelings of belonging and exclusion but face more exclusion associated with an anti-immigrant sentiment. This article shows the gravity of “illegality” as it extends across legal status, nativity, race, and generation status. It also contributes to the race and migration literature by suggesting the need for an intersectional approach to studying “illegality.”

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Cortez, Edén, and Erin L. Castro. "Mexican and Mexican American Student Reflections on Transfer: Institutional Agents and the Continued Role of the Community College." Association of Mexican American Educators Journal 11, no. 2 (December 20, 2017): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.24974/amae.11.2.354.

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This qualitative analysis draws upon the experiences of six Mexican and Mexican American community college transfer students during the 2012-2013 academic year. Relying on literature regarding institutional agents, we examine students’ reflections regarding pre- and post-transfer support from both institutional agents and structured student programs. We provide descriptive information about participation in key student support programs such as CAMP and TRiO SSS, which provided many students with introductions to institutional agents. A combination of programmatic support and guidance from individuals who acted as institutional agents assisted students in this study throughout the transfer process. Overall, individuals employed by the community college played key roles in the lives of Mexican and Mexican American community college transfer students pre- and post-transfer.

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Glade, William. "Two Decades of Economics in Mexico." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 20, no. 2 (2004): 361–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/msem.2004.20.2.361.

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This essay reviews Mexican economic policy and scholarship over the last twenty years. Momentous changes in the Mexican economic environment and national policy have precipitated corresponding changes in the economic literature, to which the maturation of the scholarly profession on the basis of improvements in Mexican academic institutions, the large number of economists trained abroad, and the employment of economists as technocrats in business and government have also contributed. Technical proficiency and new interests, in turn, have altered the profile of the economics literature produced by Mexicans, at home and abroad. A few “old” themes like inter-regional differences in development have taken on new cogency with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), but new topics of concern have been added as well, especially a literature on technical, quantitative economics. Este ensayo revisa las polííticas econóómicas de Mééxico y la investigacióón acadéémica de los últimos veinte añños. Los cambios profundos que Mééxico ha experimentado han tenido igual impacto en la produccióón acadéémica sobre la economíía—un cambio nutrido tambiéén por el crecimiento y mejoramiento de nuevos y modernos programas de especializacióón, un incremento de los economistas que han tenido su formacióón profesional en el extranjero, y el empleo creciente de economistas como tecnóócratas en el gobierno y la industria. La habilidad téécnica y los nuevos intereses han alterado, como consecuencia, los trabajos acadéémicos producidos por los mexicanos tanto dentro como fuera del paíís. Algunos “viejos”temas como las desigualdades regionales, ahora en el contexto del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC), siguen siendo analizados, pero ademáás se agregan nuevos tóópicos de interéés, especialmente trabajos sobre la economíía téécnica y cuantitativa.

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Markides, Kyriakos S. "Minority Status, Aging, and Mental Health." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 23, no. 4 (December 1986): 285–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/n0x1-2486-l9nn-jkmq.

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Research findings on mental health and life satisfaction among aged blacks, Mexican-Americans and native Americans are reviewed. Although the literature has generally followed a social stress perspective that predicts greater mental health problems among minority group aged, the evidence shows that mental health and life satisfaction of these groups is not any lower than might be anticipated based on their relative socioeconomic standing. It is concluded that, despite increased research, little is known about how ethnicity and minority group status influence psychopathology and life satisfaction in late life.

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Cater, John James, Marilyn Young, and Keanon Alderson. "Contributions and constraints to continuity in Mexican-American family firms." Journal of Family Business Management 9, no. 2 (May 31, 2019): 175–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfbm-08-2018-0022.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contributions of both successors and incumbent leaders to family firm continuity, using insights from the family business succession literature and cultural dimensions theory. Design/methodology/approach In a qualitative study, the succession practices of 19 Mexican-American family firms were examined. Findings The findings are encapsulated by seven propositions and a model of Mexican-American family firm generational contributions and constraints to family business continuity. Originality/value In-depth interviews with immigrant and second generation family firm leaders revealed both traditional family firm succession patterns and atypical succession patterns, including generational inversion and equals across generations.

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Cruz-Camino, Héctor, Diana Laura Vazquez-Cantu, Alexandra Vanessa Zea-Rey, Jaime López-Valdez, Jorge Jiménez-Lozano, René Gómez-Gutiérrez, and Consuelo Cantú-Reyna. "Hawkinsinuria clinical practice guidelines: a Mexican case report and literature review." Journal of International Medical Research 48, no. 2 (July 25, 2019): 030006051986354. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060519863543.

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Hawkinsinuria is an autosomal dominant disorder of tyrosine metabolism. Mutations in the 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase gene ( HPD) result in an altered HPD enzyme, causing hawkinsin and tyrosine accumulation. Persistent metabolic acidosis and failure to thrive are common features in patients with hawkinsinuria. We present the first known Latin American patient diagnosed with hawkinsinuria, and the tenth reported patient in the literature. We aim to establish clinical practice guidelines for patients with hawkinsinuria. The patient’s plasma tyrosine level was 21.5 mg/dL, which is several times higher than the reference value. Mutation analysis indicated heterozygosity for V212M and A33T variants in HPD. In the case of altered tyrosine levels found during newborn screening, we propose exclusive breastmilk feeding supplemented with ascorbic acid. Amino acid quantification is useful for monitoring treatment response. If tyrosinemia persists, protein intake must be decreased via a low-tyrosine diet. Molecular studies can be used to confirm a patient’s disease etiology. Further reports are required to elucidate new pathogenic and phenotypic variations to enable the development of an appropriate therapeutic approach.

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Smith, Michael M. "CarrancistaPropaganda and the Print Media in the United States: An Overview of Institutions." Americas 52, no. 2 (October 1995): 155–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1008260.

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Despite the voluminous body of historical literature devoted to the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) and U.S.-Mexican diplomatic relations, few works address the subject of revolutionary propaganda. During this tumultuous era, however, factional leaders recognized the importance of justifying their movement, publicizing their activities, and cultivating favorable public opinion for their cause, particularly in the United States. In this regard, Venustiano Carranza was especially energetic. From the inception of his Constitutionalist revolution, Carranza and his adherents persistently attempted to exploit the press to generate support among Mexican expatriates, protect Mexican sovereignty, secure recognition from the administration of Woodrow Wilson, gain the acquiescence–if not the blessing–of key sectors of the North American public for his Constitutionalist program, enhance his personal image, and defend his movement against the criticism and intrigues of his enemies–both Mexican and North American.

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Brickhouse, Anna. "Hawthorne in the Americas: Frances Calderón de la Barca, Octavio Paz, and the Mexican Genealogy of “Rappaccini's Daughter”." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 113, no. 2 (March 1998): 227–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463362.

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“Rappaccini's Daughter” (1844) is one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most famous and most frequently taught short fictions. In it Hawthorne distances himself from what he earlier called “the tottering infancy of our literature”; he boldly attaches his tale instead to the venerable scene of European literary history. Yet despite the numerous references in “Rappaccini's Daughter” to a European literary genealogy, Hawthorne makes no such self-conscious allusion to a crucial source, Frances Calderón de la Barca's Life in Mexico, a work mired in specifically American controversies over colonialism, race, and slavery. This essay examines Hawthorne's literary relation to the Americas by investigating what I call the Mexican genealogy of “Rappaccini's Daughter”: both the story's immediate predecessor, Life in Mexico, and its afterlife in Octavio Paz's La hija de Rappaccini, a dramatic revision that I read as an allegory of Mexican colonial history.

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Scheidler, James M. "Strategies for teaching Mexican American English language learners in the USA: a literature review." International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies 6, no. 1 (2015): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijtcs.2015.069760.

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Tseng, Marilyn, Robert F. DeVellis, Kurt R. Maurer, Meena Khare, Lenore Kohlmeier, James E. Everhart, and Robert S. Sandler. "Food intake patterns and gallbladder disease in Mexican Americans." Public Health Nutrition 3, no. 2 (June 2000): 233–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980000000276.

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AbstractObjectiveResults of previous studies on diet and gallbladder disease (GBD), defined as having gallstones or having had surgery for gallstones, have been inconsistent. This research examined patterns of food intake in Mexican Americans and their associations with GBD.DesignCross-sectional.SubjectsThe study population included 4641 Mexican Americans aged 20–74 years who participated in the 1988–94 third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). GBD was diagnosed by ultrasound. Food intake patterns were identified by principal components analysis based on food frequency questionnaire responses. Component scores representing the level of intake of each pattern were categorized into quartiles, and prevalence odds ratios (POR) were estimated relative to the lowest quartile along with 95% confidence intervals (CI).ResultsThere were four distinct patterns in women (vegetable, high calorie, traditional, fruit) and three in men (vegetable, high calorie, traditional). After age adjustment, none were associated with GBD in women. However, men in the third (POR = 0.42, 95%CI 0.21–0.85) and fourth (POR = 0.53, 95%CI 0.28–1.01) quartiles of the traditional intake pattern were half as likely to have GBD as those in the lowest quartile.ConclusionsThese findings add to a growing literature suggesting dietary intake patterns can provide potentially useful and relevant information on diet–disease associations. Nevertheless, methods to do so require further development and validation.

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Carrera, María José. "Samuel Beckett’s Translations of Latin American Poets for UNESCO." Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui 31, no. 1 (April 11, 2019): 53–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757405-03101005.

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Abstract Samuel Beckett’s self-avowed slight acquaintance with the Spanish language did not prevent him from tackling the translation of a poem by the Chilean Gabriela Mistral, as well as a whole anthology of Mexican poetry. Little attention has been paid to this sideline in Beckett’s career. This paper contextualizes Beckett’s involvement in these two UNESCO projects and shows, with recourse to his translation manuscripts, the intensity of the author’s work despite his distaste for these commissions.

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