The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum

Critical and Ethnographic Practices

Angie Chabram-Dernersesian

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9780814716328
• eBook ISBN:
  9780814716977
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Ethnic Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work spans the interdisciplinary fields of Chicana/o studies and cultural studies. Editor Angie Chabram-Dernersesian provides an overview of current debates, locating Chicana/o cultural criticism at the intersections of these fields. She then acts as moderator of a virtual roundtable of critics, including Frances Aparicio, Lisa Lowe, George Lipsitz, Wahneema Lubiano, Renato Rosaldo, José David Saldívar, and Sonia Saldívar-Hull.
This highly collaborative and deeply interdisciplinary project addresses the questions: What is the relationship between Chicana/o studies and cultural studies? How do we do cultural studies from within Chicana/o cultural studies? How do Chicana/o cultural studies formations (hemispheric, borderland, and feminist) intermingle? The lively conversations documented here attest to the vitality and spirit of Chicana/o cultural studies today and track the movements between disciplines that share an interest in the study of culture, power relations, identity, and representation.
This book offers a unique resource for understanding not just the development of Chicana/o cultural studies, but how new social movements and epistemologies travel and affiliate with progressive forms of social inquiry in the global era.

Index

Academic production, 66

Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS (Román), 59

Adams, Russell, 166

Additive model approach, 62

Advanced School of American Research, 185

Affirmative action, 149

African American feminism, 67

African Americans, 92, 137, 142, 149

African American studies, 12, 164–65. See also Black studies

African studies, 208

Against Literature (Beverley), 179, 181

“Against Rasquache” (García, R.), 125, 128

Agency, 97

AIDS, 59, 60, 62, 129, 135

Alarcón, Norma, 23, 30, 39, 84, 115, 221

Alfaro, Luis, 61, 157

“Algunos usos de civilización y barbarie” (Fernández Retamar), 85

Alien Nation: Common Sense about America’s Immigration Disaster (Brimelow), 152

Almaguer, Tomás, 36, 47

Alta California, 89, 94–95, 225

Alternative (music), 54, 56, 57

Alternative discourse, reframing, 220–22

American Anthropologist (journal), 52

American studies, 59, 108, 207

Anarchism, 144–45

Anderson, Benedict, 224

“... And, Yes, the Earth Did Part” (Chabram-Dernersesian), 126

Anglos and Mexicans, 96–97

Annual Review of Anthropology (journal), 116

Anthropology, 25, 46, 80–81, 108, 117, 118, 122, 161, 186–87

Chicano critique of, 18

cultural studies and, 118–20

culture in, 175

feminist, 185

Romano critique of, 116

scholar’s position in, 58

Anzaldúa, Gloria, 26, 62, 65, 73–75, 85, 87, 110, 113–15, 127, 187, 189, 221, 229, 230–31, 233

Aparicio, Francis, 39, 197–99, 214

Arce, Elia, 157

Archeology, 123

Area studies, 20, 34, 108

creation of, 36

cultu...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Session One A Question of Genealogies
• Session Two Chicana/o Cultural Studies
• Session Three Staking the Claim
• Intercession
• Session Four More Practices of Cultural Studies in Our Worlds (Asian-American, American, Latina/o, Latin American, Subaltern, African American)
• Session Five Conclusion
• Postscript
• Chronology
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index