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The Mexican American Experience

The Mexican American Experience is a cluster of modular texts designed to provide greater flexibility in undergraduate education. Each book deals with a single topic concerning the Mexican American population. Instructors can create a semester-length course from any combination of volumes, or may choose to use one or two volumes to complement other texts.

• Chicana/o Identity in a Changing U.S. Society Hurtado
• Mexican Americans and the Law Valencia
• Chicano Popular Culture Tatum
• Chicano and Chicana Literature Tatum
• Mexican Americans and the Environment Peña
• Mexican Americans and Health de la Torre
• Mexican Americans and Language Martínez
• Mexican Americans and the Politics of Diversity Magaña
• Mexican Americans and the U.S. Economy Gonzalez

Social Sciences

• Border Visions. Velez-Ibanez
• Chicanas/Chicanos at the Crossroads. Maciel
• Chicanismo. García
• Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics. Peña
• Chicano Renaissance. Maciel
• Culture across Borders. Maciel
• Environmentalism and Economic Justice. Pulido
• Hispanic Nation. Fox
• A Latina in the Land of Hollywood. Valdivia
• Los Tucsonenses. Sheridan
• Mexican-Origin People in the United States. Martínez
• Mexicans in the Midwest. García
• Moving from the Margins. de la Torre
• Songs My Mother Sang to Me. Martin
• Speaking Chicana. Galindo
• United We Win. García

Borderlands

• Beliefs and Holy Places. Griffith
• Border People. Martínez
• Contested Ground. Guy
• Divided Waters. Ingram
• Lives on the Line. Davidson
• The Mexican Border Cities. Arreola
• The Road to Mexico. Taylor
• Troublesome Border. Martínez
• Women and Change at the U.S.–Mexico Border Mattingly

Literary Studies

• Border Confluences King
• New Latina Narrative. McCracken
• A Poet's Truth. Dick
• Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage. Herrera-Sobek
• Stages of Life. Sandoval-Sánchez
• Women Singing in the Snow. Rebolledo

• Adobe Odes Mora
• Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream. Herrera
• Breathing Between the Lines. Martínez
• Days of Plenty, Days of Want. Martin
• The Devil's Workshop. Martínez
• El Milagro and Other Stories. Martin
• From the Other Side of Night. Alarcón
• The Ghost of John Wayne. Gonzalez
• Home Movies of Narcissus. Arroyo
• Infinite Divisions. Rebolledo
• The Last Tortilla. Troncoso
• Memory Fever. Gonzalez
• Nobody's Son. Urrea
• Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler. Herrera
• Palm Crows. Suárez
• The Peruvian Notebooks Muñoz
• Puro Teatro, A Latina Anthology. Sandoval
• Turtle Pictures. Gonzalez
• The Wind Shifts Aragón

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