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229 African Americans: mammy stereotype, 210n26; racial marginalization, 65, 174; seamstresses, 193n47; in the South Bronx, 174; in visual representation, 156, 208n10 agency: authoring one’s history, 4; of Native women, 87–88; as situational, 53, 132; and street vending, 32, 42–43 agricultural extension, 10, 20, 77, 78 Alabama, and House Bill 56, 212n1 Alamo Plaza, 28, 34–35, 39, 192n23 Alarcón, Norma, 13, 16, 29 Alfaro, Luis, 162 Almaguer, Tomás, 55 Almaraz, Felix, 45–46 American dream: in The House on Mango Street, 114–115, 119; as myth, 17; as myth of individualism, 179, 202n25 Americanization: agents, 8, 20, 37; and Cabeza de Baca, 78–79, 84, 88–90; in California Fashions Slaves, 183; and consumerism, 1, 38; and education, 71; and home economics, 8, 78, 81, 84; and hygiene and sanitation, 37–38, 84; and language, 90; movements, 6, 32–33; and racialized nationalisms, 78–79, 84, 88, 90; in Progressive Era, 90; and regionalism, 78; rhetoric of, 37 American Public Relations Forum, 9, 92 Anaya, Rudolfo, 109 “anchor babies,” 11 “angels in the house,” 178 Anglo Americans: conquest and colonization by, 52, 55, 57; and domesticity, 1, 37– 38, 56, 67; domination by, 59; and racial binaries, 51, 68, 74 anti-immigrant views: as activism, 11; in policies, rhetoric, and discourse, 6–7, 164, 181, 182 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 13, 16, 29, 113, 202n23; Borderlands/La Frontera, 106; children’s literature, 109, 201n17; “Coyolxauhqui imperative,” 187; “mestiza consciousness,” 17, 147 Applegate, Frank, 14, 87 appropriation, of culture, 40, 73 Armstrong, Nancy, 5, 7, 197n15 Arreola, Daniel, 34, 191n21 Arte Público Press, 199–200 Asco, 17, 22; “Asco: Elite of the Obscure” (exhibit), 134; group members, 204n2; murals, 130; No Movies, 138–141, 205n16; origin of group name, 204n1; “Phantom Sightings” (exhibit), 134; punk aesthetics , 130–132; and Valdez, 130–145, 147, 152, 154 Asian immigration, 8, 10, 78, 127, 166, 213n9 assimilation: in cultural production, 157; and home economics, 21, 79; in The House on Mango Street, 115, 118; of Latina/os, 127; and “melting pot” ideology, 71–72; and Mexican American female authors, 53; and Mora’s writings, 151; vs. multiculturalism , 71; mythology of, 17 Austen, Jane, 7 Austin, Mary, 14, 87 autobiography, 4, 18, 20; in Romance of a Little Village Girl, 50, 52, 69–70 Ayres, Atlee B.: architectural styles, 189n1; fiestas, 27–31, 34, 38–39, 41–42 Aztlán, 12, 107, 110, 201n10 Index 230 Index Baca, Judy, 106, 135 Baca Zinn, Maxine, 12, 111 Bag, Alice, 141 Battle of Flowers Parade, 193n47 Baym, Nina, 5, 7 beautiful señoritas, 29–31 beauty: beauty shop, 136–138; as business practice, 29, 43; and constructions of gender, 13, 22; Hollywood ideal of, 139, 162–163, 209n20; and Valdez, 131, 134, 136– 138, 140, 144–145, 147; and whiteness, 38; women as objects of, 30 beauty shops: Dominican, 136; and Valdez, 136–138; and women of color, 136 Beecher, Catherine, 7 Benavidez, Max, 138–139, 204n2 Berg, Charles Ramírez, 23; “performative excess,” 159, 164, 169 bicultural aesthetics: in cultural production , xv, 5, 121, 128; in material culture, 46 bildungsroman, 119–120, 202n26; “alternative Chicana/o tradition,” 203n27 bilingualism: and Cabeza de Baca, 88, 89–91; in children’s books, 108, 200n4; education in New Mexico, 89–90; in Garza’s works, 109, 121, 127–128; literacy in Patzcuaro, Mexico, 77–79, 91, 199n17; on radio, 198n15 BIP (Border Industrialization Program), 213n8 Black Virgin, 145–146; and whiteness, 147 Blackwell, Maylei: family in Chicano/a Movement, 12, 106, 110–11; and Las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, 200n7; and malinchistas , 161; and nationalism, 114, 201n10; and women in Chicano/a Movement, 17, 112, 201–202n20 body, of Latinas, 11, 155, 159, 181–182 Border Industrialization Program (BIP), 213n8 borderlands: identity of, xvi, 121, 147; as place, 53, 58, 203n28 Borderlands/La Frontera (Anzaldúa), 106, 202n23 border theory, 17; in Borderlands/La Frontera , 106, 202n23 Bracero Program: definition of, 9, 10, 50–51, 81, 196n3; and racial discrimination, 69, 92 Brown Berets, 12 Broyles-González, Yolanda, 47, 160 Butler, Judith, and gender performativity, 145 Caballero (González and Raleigh): analysis of, 49–53, 58–66; co-authorship of, 51, 58–59, 195n1, 196n4, 196n10; and protofeminism , 20 Cabeza de Baca, Fabiola, xv, 6, 15, 19–21, 74–100, 129; and Americanization, 78– 79, 84, 88–90; and bilingual education, 89–90; canning, 77, 89, 197n5; cooking , 199n26; “domestic power,” 10; and education, 197n4; The Good Life, 80, 86; Historic Cookery...

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