Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society Book

	Acknowledgments
	General Introduction	1
	Introduction for Students: Power/Knowledge, Language, and Everyday Life	10
Pt. I	Historical Origins/Theoretical and Feminist(s) Contexts (ca. 1750 to 1900)	23
1	The Chicana Woman: An Historical Materialist Perspective	27
2	Latina Politics/Latino Politics	50
3	Reflections on Latino/as and Public Citizenship	58
4	I Am Joaquin: An Epic Poem (1967)	75
5	America's Patriots Then and Now: Anticolonial Struggles and Latino/a Political Thought	88
6	The Making of a Tejano: The Personal Memoirs of John N. Seguin	102
7	Letter from James Buchanan and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	121
8	Meanings in Transition	134
9	The Platt Amendment (1901)	145
10	The Shaping of a Colonial Policy	149
	Poem: Last-Mambo-in-Miami	166
Pt. II	Life Within the Empire: (De)Constructing Political Positions and Identities	167
11	The Emergence of Feminism in Puerto Rico, 1870-1930	175
12	We Came Out of Prison Standing, Not on Our Knees	184
13	El Exilio: National Security Interests and the Origins of the Cuban Exile Enclave	194
14	Our Feminist Heritage	215
15	El Primer Congreso Mexicanista de 1911: A Precursor to Contemporary Chicanismo	220
16	Epilogue from Decade of Betrayal	240
17	The Organizer's Tale	249
18	Queer Aztlan: The Re-formation of Chicano Tribe	258
19	Reconstructing Racial Identity: Ethnicity, Color, and Class among Dominicans in the United States and Puerto Rico	274
20	No Regrets: The Tough Choice between Freedom and Convictions Faced by Jailed Puerto Rican Activists	289
21	Havana USA	293
Pt. III	On the National Question	319
22	Brown Beret National Policies	324
23	Chicanos as a Postcolonial Minority: Some Questions Concerning the Adequacy of the Paradigm of Internal Colonialism	331
24	Young Lords Party: 13-Point Program and Platform	342
25	The Divorce of Nationalist Discourses from the Puerto Rican People	348
	Poem: native of nowhere	365
Pt. IV	Beyond the National-Colonial Dichotomy (History of the Present)	367
26	Transnational Political and Cultural Identities: Crossing Theoretical Borders	370
27	Class and Culture Wars in the New Latino Politics	385
28	The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History	408
29	A Postdemocratic Era	415
Pt. V	Conclusion	417
	Appendixes	421
	Glossary	451
	Permissions	457
	Index	461
	About the Authors	479