Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. CHAPTER ONE Looking In while Stepping Out: Growth, Reassessment, and the Promising Problem of the New Chicana/o History 1
6. CHAPTER TWO The Accidental Historian; or, How I Found My Groove in Legal History 33
7. CHAPTER THREE Moving beyond Aztlán: Disrupting Nationalism and Geographic Essentialism in Chicana/o History 59
8. CHAPTER FOUR Chicana/o History as Southern History: Race, Place, and the US South 83
9. CHAPTER FIVE Sacred Spaces: Race, Resistance, and the Politics of Chicana/o and Latina/o Religious History 111
10. CHAPTER SIX Chicanas in the US-Mexican Borderlands: Transborder Conversations of Feminism and Anarchism, 1905–1938 135
11. CHAPTER SEVEN Eastside Imaginaries: Toward a Relational and Transnational Chicana/o Cultural History 161
12. Select Bibliography of Recent Publications in Chicana/o History 185
13. Contributors 197
14. Index 201