Tag: University of Minnesota Press

  • Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture University of Minnesota Press 2006 272 pages 15 halftones; 5 7⁄8 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4595-7 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4595-4 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4594-9 Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4594-7 Rafael Pérez-Torres, Professor and Chair of English University of California, Los Angeles A major reassessment of how mixed-race identity affects Chicano culture and…

  • Does racial hybridity offer a future beyond racial difference? At a time when the idea of a postracial society has entered public discourse, “The Amalgamation Waltz” investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.