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  • Latina/os and World War II: Mobility, Agency, and Ideology
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  • Edited by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and B.V. Olguín
  • 2014
  • Published by: University of Texas Press
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This eye-opening anthology documents, for the first time, the effects of World War II on Latina/o personal and political beliefs across a broad spectrum of ethnicities and races within the Latina/o identity.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface. Navigating Bureaucratic Imprecision in the Search for an Accurate Count of Latino/a Military Service in World War II
  2. Karl Eschbach and Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
  3. pp. ix-xx
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xxi-xxiv
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  1. Introduction: Mapping Latina/o Mobility, Agency, and Ideology in the World War II Era
  2. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and B. V. Olguín
  3. pp. 1-10
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  1. Part I. Ideological Mobility
  1. 1. Ybor City Goes to War: The Evolution and Transformation of a “Latin” Community in Florida, 1886–1950
  2. Gary R. Mormino
  3. pp. 13-42
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  1. 2. Pvt. Evelio Grillo and Sgt. Norberto González: Afro-Latino Experiences of War and Segregation
  2. Frank André Guridy
  3. pp. 43-58
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  1. 3. Higher Education, the GI Bill, and the Postwar Lives of Latino Veterans and Their Families
  2. Angélica Aguilar Rodríguez, Julian Vasquez Heilig, and Allison Prochnow
  3. pp. 59-74
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  1. 4. Transnational Latino Soldiering: Military Service and Ethnic Politics during World War II
  2. Luís Alvarez
  3. pp. 75-94
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  1. 5. “Intellectually He Was Courageous; in Public Action He Was Cautious and Prudent”: A Reassessment of Carlos E. Castañeda’s Wartime Service
  2. Marianne M. Bueno
  3. pp. 95-112
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  1. Part II. Cultural Agency
  1. 6. The Mexican Voice Goes to War: Identities, Issues, and Ideas in World War II–Era Mexican American Journalism and Youth Activism
  2. Félix F. Gutiérrez
  3. pp. 115-136
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  1. 7. “Capitán, ¿a qué huele la sangre?”: Mexicana/o Vaudeville and Militarized Citizenship during World War II
  2. Peter C. Haney
  3. pp. 137-156
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  1. 8. “Con dolor de corazón”: Militarization and Transracial Recognition among Mexican Americans and Filipinos in the Bataan Death March
  2. Jordan Beltrán Gonzales
  3. pp. 157-174
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  1. 9. Tejanas on the Home Front: Women, Bombs, and the (Re)Gendering of War in Mexican American World War II Literature
  2. Patricia Portales
  3. pp. 175-196
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  1. 10. Interrogating the Soldado Razo: Masculinity, Soldiering, and Ideology in Mexican American World War II Memoir and Theater
  2. B. V. Olguín
  3. pp. 197-216
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  1. 11. Seeking “America”: A Cuban Journey through the United States and beyond during the World War II Era
  2. Gerald E. Poyo
  3. pp. 217-236
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 237-272
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  1. Selected Bibliography
  2. pp. 273-288
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  1. Author Biographies
  2. pp. 289-292
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 293-304
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