Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction “How Do You Make the Invisible, Visible?”: Locating Stories of Mexican Peoplehood 1 2 3
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Don Zavala Goes to Washington: Translating U.S. Democracy
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Constituting Terra Incognita: The “Mexican Question” in U.S. Print Culture
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Embodying Manifest Destiny: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Color of Mexican Womanhood
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Claiming Los Bilitos: Miguel Antonio Otero and the Fight for New Mexican Manhood “Con su pluma en su mano”: Américo Paredes and the Poetics of “Mexican American” Peoplehood
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Conclusion: Recovering La memoria: Locating the Recent Past
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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About the Author
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