Morrissey, Marietta (1999). Serving Farm Workers, Serving Farmers: Migrant Social Services in Northwest Ohio. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v24 n2 p95-118 Fall. Examines various services available to migrant farmworkers and their families in northwest Ohio, including labor recruiting, welfare services, health services, day care and Head Start, and legal services. Argues that although such services were established ostensibly to help farmworkers, they assist farmers in crucial ways and help perpetuate the migrant farm labor system. (Contains 25 references.) (Author/SV)…

Subervi-Velez, Federico A. (1999). The Mass Media and Latinos: Policy and Research Agendas for the Next Century. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v24 n2 p131-47 Fall. Discusses policy and research needs related to the mass media and Latinos in five areas: emergency communications planning that considers limited-English-speaking populations, access to telecommunications and information technology, culturally sensitive children's television programming, bias in news and entertainment media, and teaching and research in communication. (Contains 38 references.) (SV)…

Gonzales, Rosa; Ortiz, Flora Ida (2000). Latino High School Students' Pursuit of Higher Education. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v25 n1 p67-107 Spr. This case study shows how joint organizational efforts and individual initiative counteracted social structures inhibiting Latino students' pursuit of higher education. A high school principal, university president, institutional units responsible for student preparation and access to college, students, and their parents created social relationships, activities, and structures to raise Latino students' eligibility for University of California admission. (Contains 69 references.) (Author/TD)…

Dash, Robert C.; Hawkinson, Robert E. (2001). Mexicans and "Business as Usual": Small Town Politics in Oregon. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v26 n2 p87-123 Fall. Examines the applicability of two alternative theories of small-town politics to a case of Mexican American political mobilization in Woodburn, Oregon, where Mexican Americans comprised half the population. Discusses Mexican American attempts to promote a housing project for migrant workers and to pressure the school board to reflect Mexican heritage in the naming of two new schools. (SV)…

Juffer, Jane (2001). Latina/o Studies and the Ethics of Job Training: On the Premises of the Corporate University. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v26 n2 p183-98 Fall. Many universities fund Latino studies programs, in part, as a means to train students for the transnational labor force, but thereby present complex ethical issues. The national student-organized Workers Rights Consortium provides a model of ethical engagement with globalization, pursuing ethical corporate practices among university contractors. Critical practices in one classroom are described. (Contains 22 references.) (SV)…

Gonzalez, Gilbert G. (2001). The "Mexican Problem": Empire, Public Policy, and the Education of Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v26 n2 p199-207 Fall. In the early 1900s, a central theme in many books and scholarly works about Mexico and Mexicans was the transnational "Mexican problem"–the innate political and cultural backwardness that prevented Mexico's development and modernization. These works greatly influenced both U.S. policy toward Mexico and educational policies aimed at segregating and Americanizing Mexican-origin students. (SV)…

Schement, Jorge Reina (2001). A Telecommunications Policy Agenda for Latinos en la Edad de Informacion. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v26 n2 p209-21 Fall. Discusses telecommunications developments affecting Latino access and participation. Examines telecommunications policy as political discourse. Presents elements of a telecommunications policy agenda drawn from that of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and focusing on access to services, education for digital literacy, needs of small businesses and entrepreneurs, access to technological improvements, and Latino community information services. (SV)…

Leon, David J. (2001). Manuel M. Corella: The Broken Trajectory of the First Latino Student and Teacher at the University of California, 1869-1874. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v26 n1 p171-79 Spr. Mexican-born Manuel M. Corella was the first minority student to attend the University of California, taught Spanish there, was an officer in the university cadets, and engaged in debating and literary activity. Yet his university career closed in mystery when after 4 years he suddenly left, without official explanation, only months before graduation. (Author/TD)…

Bost, Suzanne (2005). Gloria Anzaldua's Mestiza Pain: Mexican Sacrifice, Chicana Embodiment, and Feminist Politics. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n2 p5-34 Fall. Gloria Anzaldua's mestiza consciousness has been celebrated by critics of diverse methodologies and applied to discussions of hybridity, borders, and difference around the world. Lost in these wide and varied applications are the conquest and rape, and the regulation of national and individual boundaries, that are the historical origins of mestizaje. I focus on an aspect of Anzaldua's work that is often overlooked and that has become even more significant since her recent death: her writings on physical pain. I examine the relationship between these representations and her theories of mestiza consciousness, tracing her references back to Aztec sacrifice rituals and Spanish Catholicism and concluding with a forward-looking analysis of the Chicana feminist political potential of Anzaldua's body in pain. (Contains 29 notes.)… [Direct]

Irwin, Robert McKee (2005). The Legend of Lola Casanova: On the Borders of Border Studies. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n2 p35-64 Fall. This article contrasts two stories of nineteenth-century interracial romance, the Mexican borderlands legend of Lola Casanova and the U.S. borderlands novel "Ramona." It argues that the Casanova legend suggests Mexican attitudes toward interracial marriage that differ significantly from those understood in recent readings of "Ramona" by U.S.-based scholars. This disparity draws attention to a blind spot in U.S.-based border studies: its tendency toward an exclusive focus on the U.S. Southwest that utterly disregards a Mexican borderlands perspective. I argue that border studies scholars need to engage more readily in cross-border dialogue. (Contains 37 notes.)… [Direct]

Macias, Anthony (2005). Latin Holidays: Mexican Americans, Latin Music, and Cultural Identity in Postwar Los Angeles. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n2 p65-86 Fall. This essay recreates the exciting Latin music and dance scenes of post-World War II Southern California, showing how Mexican Americans produced and consumed a range of styles and, in the process, articulated their complex cultural sensibilities. By participating in a Spanish-language expressive culture that was sophisticated and cosmopolitan, musicians, singers, disc jockeys, impresarios, fans, and dancers rejected an Anglo-imposed cultural identity as racialized labor commodities, flirting instead with an appealing "latinidad," or Latinness. Drawing on a deep tradition of cultural and musical "mestizaje," they took a "holiday" or vacation from their assigned place in the social structure and in the city, merging ethnic Mexican pride with urban elegance to create their own social space during an age of Anglo cultural conformity. (Contains 2 figures and 18 notes.)… [Direct]

Michaelsen, Scott (2005). Between Japanese American Internment and the USA PATRIOT Act: The Borderlands and the Permanent State of Racial Exception. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n2 p87-111 Fall. The general conversation today about the USA PATRIOT Act and its historical and legal significance must be contextualized with reference to a series of 1970s U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding the U.S. Border Patrol that directly undergird the PATRIOT Act. The Supreme Court long ago turned the U.S. borderlands adjoining Mexico into a permanent racial camp, and the borderlands is the "home," as it were, of the permanent state of legal, racial exceptionalism. This problem must be theorized as structural in nature, rather than historical or contingent, in order to confront the matter of exceptional sovereignty at its constitutional foundations. Readings of the Supreme Court decisions regarding Japanese American internment and of Charles "Mills's Racial Contract" provide a context for the elaboration of this problem. A final reflection on Jose Antonio Burciaga's poem "Green Nightmares" suggests an idea for justice at the limit of sovereign authority that… [Direct]

Carlston, Erin G. (2005). \Making the Margins Chaos\: Romantic and Antiromantic Readings of La Maravilla. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n2 p113-135 Fall. Alfredo Vea Jr.'s 1993 novel \La Maravilla\ depicts a 1950s squatter community on the edge of Phoenix. The community, Buckeye Road, questions notions of U.S. American identity as middle-class, WASP, and heterosexual. Buckeye can easily be viewed as a romanticized utopia that offers an alternative to consumer capitalism, urban sprawl, the disintegration of community, and the loss of spiritual values in the second half of the twentieth century. I argue, however, that the novel consistently undercuts both its own romanticism and our romanticized readings of it. (Contains 7 notes.)… [Direct]

Romero, Robert Chao (2005). Musica de la Frontera: Research Note on the UCLA Frontera Digital Archive. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p233 Spr. The Frontera Digital Archive is an impressive and invaluable research tool for multidisciplinary scholars of Chicana/o studies and Latin American studies. The archive preserves rare Mexican vernacular musical recordings and provides convenient access to these recordings via Internet….

Heidenreich, Linda (2005). The Colonial North: Histories of Women and Violence from before the U.S. Invasion. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p23 Spr. Histories of three nineteenth-century women, a landed Californiana, a soldier's wife and an indigenous woman who lived in northern Alta California prior to the U.S. invasion is presented using census records, newspapers, oral histories and stories. Their lives in relation to each other and in relation to the larger social-economic order at the time are examined….

Beltran, Mary (2005). Dolores Del Rio, the First \Latin Invasion\, and Hollywood's Transition to Sound. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p55 Spr. The career and promotion of Mexican actress Dolores Del Rio as a case study of how Hollywood's shift to sound film affected Latino and Latina actors is examined. It reveals the way in which the starring opportunities for Latinos dwindled when accent and language increasingly marked them as nonwhite in the 1930s in the talkie films….

Olguin, B.V. (2005). Reassessing Pocho Poetics: Americo Paredes's Poetry and the (Trans) National Question. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p87 Spr. Americo Paredes's first collection of poetry, Cantos de Adolescencia in 1937, alongside his second poetry anthology, Between Two Worlds in 1991 is examined. Paredes's discourses of Mexican American identity demand a reassessment of the pocho as an icon for Chicanao literary and cultural studies….

Rivera, John-Michael (2005). \La Memoria De Nuestra Tierra\: Landscapes, Mexicans, and the Browning of America. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p123 Spr. The cartographic and aesthetic marker reveals about the contradictions inherent in the racial and civic constitution of the U.S. body politic based on the political and cultural notions of \landscape\ during the mid-nineteenth-century era and the neoliberal era of 2005. These two liminal periods are placed to render a more complete portrait of the relationships among the civic, racial, and geographic imaginations of Mexican America….

Candelaria, Nash (2005). Education in Gringoland: UCLA 1944-48. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p149 Spr. The issue of college politics faced by the minority students like the Hispanics in the University of California, Los Angeles, is described. One of the students from the minority narrates two incidents in his personal life that forced him to better define himself….

Davila, Arlene (2005). El Barrio's \We Are Watching You\ Campaign: On the Politics of Inclusion in a Latinized Museum. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p153 Spr. The way in which economic and cultural trends have led cultural institutions to go away from grassroots constituencies toward better ones and multiple debates within the world of U.S. Latino/a culture and the arts is described. The debate over the El Museo, which in the larger context affected the categorization, promotion and exhibition of Latin American art, and the El Barrio's Campaign \We Are Watching You\ is discussed….

Ramirez, Jason (2005). The Case of the Capeman: Appropriation of the \Authentic\. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p179 Spr. \The Capeman\ Paul Simon's first and only Broadway musical that embodies a peculiar authenticity unique in the history of Latino-themed musicals that stem from its reception by Latino audiences during its limited run is described. Capeman's music, dialogue and narrative gave authenticity for Latino audiences starved for representations of their culture in commercial theater….

Baca, Judy (2005). La Memoria De Nuestra Tierra: Colorado. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p195 Spr. La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra combines a meticulously hand-painted landscape with historic photographs in a seamless blend imprinted on the holographic-like surface of a metallic coated substrate. The mural for the Denver International Airport, entitled La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra is a breakthrough in digital murals, printed digitally on a bronze-colored aluminum ten feet by fifty feet in length….

de la Torre, Adela (2004). Race-Neutral Policies for Professional School Admissions: Are There Strategies to Enhance Latino Enrollment?. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n2 p155 Fall. Affirmative action policies have played a critical role in promoting equal opportunity for both Latino faculty and Latino students in higher education. Affirmative action, one of the social programs that evolved from the civil rights movement, was aimed at increasing opportunities employment and education for historically underrepresented groups that were targets of discrimination….

Johnson, Kevin R. (2004). Why Latina/os Need More than Twenty-Five of Affirmative Action. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n2 p171 Fall. A time limit ensures periodic review of a race-based program to make sure that it is maintained only if needed or, if necessary, modified to better achieve its goals. The 25-year time limit announced by Justice O'Connor grabbed public attention which shows that University of Michigan affirmative action cases would be of monumental importance to public universities that have contemplating, affirmative action programs….

Robles, Barbara J. (2004). An Asset Approach to Educational Diversity Policies: Exporting Democracy. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n2 p185 Fall. Some interventions presented are a part of educational reform and ensured forward movement toward guaranteeing educational opportunities and access to the country's diverse racial and ethnic communities. A central goal of affirmative action policies is to enable students from previously segregated communities to train as leaders in a variety of educational disciplines….

Marez, Curtis (2004). Subaltern Soundtracks. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n1 p57 Spr. The postrevolutionary Mexican presence in Los Angeles profoundly influenced the emergence and consolidation of film and other media there. Mainstream responses suggest that dominant uses of sound in film exercised an ideological police power that was ultimately aimed at symbolically containing Mexican dissent….

Hicks, Emily D. (2004). Transnationalism and Rights in the Age of Empire: Spoken Word, Music, and Digital Culture in the Borderlands. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n1 p165 Spr. The cultural activities, including the performance of music and spoken word are documented. The cultural activities in the San Diego-Tijuana region that is described is emerged from rhizomatic, transnational points of contact….

de la Loza, Sandra (2004). Taco De Sesos. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n1 p177 Spr. Taco de Sesos is a digitally animated fotonovella with the help of which the archetype of the \Maria\ is explored. \La Maria\ is represented as the heroic figure that quietly suffers a myriad of physical and symbolic violences….

Gomez-Pena, Guillermo; Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael (2004). Tech-Illa Sunrise. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n1 p181 Spr. The leaked documents of the tech-illa network are investigated. It was unclear that if the information was left in the cracked server on purpose, to be distributed by the hackers as a decoy….

Gamez, Jose (2004). Building Faith?. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n1 p261 Spr. Moneo's design for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Struggles to bring the gospel to downtown Los Angeles is presented. The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels might become a point of pilgrimage without challenge, and the cathedral might itself hold some reward for those who venture to visit its vast grounds….