Examines factors which contribute to the bilingualism found in the Mexican American community of the Southwest.

How the text of Spanish and Indian miscegenation and the story of Aztlan propagate identity is demonstrated in texts from Bernal Diaz del Castillo to Gloria Anz

This groundbreaking book--about differences in communication practices between Mexican-American underclass residents in an East Los Angeles housing project and

Chicano Studies is a comparatively new academic discipline. Unlike well-established fields of study that long ago codified their canons and curricula, the depar

First published in 1998. Writing about Chicano professionals in Los Angeles proves timely for many reasons. Anthropologists now venture into the ethnic borderla