Voices of a New Chicana/O History

Issues that inspired the publication of Voices of a New Chicana/o History are to be found in the backgrounds and lives of the work's contributors themselves. These scholars all are part of a new generation of Chicana/o historians, a generation that is in the midst of framing a debate over the future of the Chicana/o past. Because most were born after 1960, these men and women also are living the history of an intellectual movement they seek to describe and explain. In aggregate, this selection of fourteen important new pieces of in-depth research forms a kind of paradigm for expanding the boundaries of Chicana/o cultural studies. Voices of a New Chicana/o History presents a construct by which the Chicana/o shared experience is helping to redefine many academic disciplines with a stimulating, multi-layered questioning of inherited scholarly assumptions. Contributors: Rudy Acua, Truth and Objectivity and Chicana/o History Alberto Camarillo, Chicano Community Studies and Future Directions in Chicana/o History Antonio Rios-Bustamente, A General Survey of Chicana/o Historiography Ramn A. Gutirrez, Historiography and a New Vision for Chicana/o Studies Louise Ao Nuero Kerr, State of the Literature: Chicano History Luis Leal, Chicano Literary History: Origin and Development Martha Menchaca, History and Anthropology: Conducting Chicano Research Mara E. Montoya, Beyond Internal Colonialism: Class, Gender, and Culture as Challenges to Chicano Identity Lorena Oropeza, Making History: The Chicano Movement Stephen J. Pitti, Ernesto Galarza Remembered: A Reflection on Graduate Studies in Chicano History Roberto Rodrguez, The Origins and History of the Chicana/o Movement Ramn Eduardo Ruiz, Assymetry Dennis Valdes, Region, Nation, and World System: Perspectives on Midwestern Chicana/o History Zaragosa Vargas, Citizen, Immigrant and Foreign Wage Workers: The Chicana/o Labor Refrain in U.S. Labor Historiography