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Title: The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (Theories of Representation and Difference) by Emma Perez ISBN: 0-253-21283-9 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.31 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Expected More
Comment: After reading the first few pages of the book I realized that I was back in my Graduate class at Utep. I was expecting something more and different from Dr. Perez.
Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant deconstruction of Chicano history
Comment: Emma Perez has written a risky and provocative book that dazzingly deconstructs the normative categories undergirding Chicana/o and U.S. West history. By theorizing the decolonial imaginary and third space feminism (and drawing eclectically from feminist and critical theory) she creates a new and expansive narrative which allows us to think in original ways about Chicana identity, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the cultural and gendering effects of the Mexican Revolution, and the process by which dominant historical forms are canonized. One of the most impressive things about her book is is that she simultaneously does two very different things through a connected yet multifaceted narrative. On the one hand, she posits a category for thinking and acting on new forms of social interaction, in other words, if we examine our lives -- as feminists, historians, gringas, or people or color -- in the context of a decolonial imaginary, some of the recalcitrant and insidious limits and lines of racism, homophobia, and othering dissolve. This is especially highlighted by her inventive reading of the John Sayles's film "Lone Star," in which the female protaganist (a tejana) says to her anglo boyfriend (and half-brother), "Forget the Alamo." For Perez, this means not that history can be forgetten but that we can relive and reenact historical forms in the name of love and human connection. On the other hand, through a wonderful archival strategy which includes research in the Yucatan, Los Angeles, Houston and other sites, Perez successfuly and eloquently writes the diffcult genre of transnational feminist history. She examines the making, sexing, and naming of Chicana identities while *both* highlighting the importance of the circular migration of women, families, and ideas across borders and emphasizing the centrality of boundaries (through urban segregation or Anglo anti-Mexican sentiment) to the formation of Chicana lives and spaces. This is exemplified by her wonderful reading of the "Letter from Chapultepec" written by a Chicana group in Houston in the 1930s. Overall, I recommend this book highly to anyone interested in feminist studies, Chicana/o history, borderlands history, U.S. Western history, and Mexican history.
Rating: 3
Summary: Disappointing, I was expecting something new and different.
Comment: The book is well written but the argument is the same; I was expecting to read something new from the author. Perez is a brillant author/historian/professor but somehow i was disappointed in the fact that she did not address any new arguments in her book. Perez needs to take us a step further in her writings and explore other issues/arguments that surround women of color.Will I continue to support her as an author/historian, yes. She remains to be a brillant woman who is not afraid to speak her mind.
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Title: Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings by Alma M. Garcia, Mario T. Garcia ISBN: 0415918014 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal ISBN: 0385061188 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 November, 1970 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval, Angela Y. Davis ISBN: 0816627371 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House : Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition by Alicia Gaspar de Alba ISBN: 0292728050 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: White Lies: Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse by Jessie Daniels ISBN: 0415912903 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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