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Voices of a New Chicana/O History

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The contributors to Voice Of A New Chicana/O History are themselves living the history of the intellectual movement they seek to describe and explain. Here comprised are fourteen informative, challenging, exceptional essays presenting a new kind of paradigm for expanding the boundaries of Chicana/o cultural history through a stimulating, multi-layered presentation of impeccable scholarship. The contributors include Rudy Acuna, Alberto Camarillo, Jose Cuello, Antonio Rios-Bustamnte, Ramon A. Gutierrez, Louis Ano Nuevo Kerr, Luis Leal, Martha Menchaca, Maria E. Montoya, Lorena Oropeza, Stephen J. Pitti, Roberto Rodriguez, Ramon Eduardo Ruiz, Dennis N. Valdes, and Zaragosa Vargas. Voice Of A New Chicana/O History is a highly recommended and invaluable contribution to Mexican-American history and literature.

Not a light read, but definitely a fine contribution to Chicano letters is this collection of fourteen essays by some of this country's top Chicano/a scholars. -Katherine A. Diaz from Hispanic

The scholars whose analyses and works comprise Voices of a New Chicana/o History, contribute to these explorations represent a new generation which is examining a revised portrait of Chicana/o history. Most were born after 1960, and provide a contemporary insider's viewpoint in the course of their analysis of the state of Chicano history and its analysis. A 'must' for any Latin history collection, Voices of a New Chicana/o History provides lively contemporary viewpoints.