Culture Across Borders: Mexican Immigration and Popular Culture Review
Culture Across Borders: Mexican Immigration and Popular Culture by David R. Maciel and Maria Herrera-Sobek (272 pages) My Rating: 3 Stars Date Read: 27 April 2016 Synopsis: For as long as Mexicans have emigrated to the United States they have responded creatively to the challenges of making a new home. But although historical, sociological, and other aspects of Mexican immigration have been widely studied, its cultural and artistic manifestations have been largely overlooked by scholars—even though Mexico has produced the greatest number of cultural works inspired by the immigration process. And recently Chicana/o artists have addressed immigration as a central theme in their cultural productions and motifs. Culture across Borders is the first and only book-length study to analyze a wide range of cultural manifestations of the immigration experience, including art, literature, cinema, corridos, and humor. It shows how Mexican immigrants have been depicted in popular cult...