[This text was written for the new blog, Aztlán Reads, to which I’m excited to have been asked to contribute. The blog post is here. Go ahead, leave a comment.] Just as there is a presumption that United States history begins in the east and moves to the west against a savage frontier, so is…
Tag: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Abstracted
[In celebration of my dissertation being accepted today by my university’s library, I’m put up its abstract. Don’t worry, I’m probably not going to post the whole thing.] Title: ”Splitting Aztlán: American Resistance and Chicana Visions of a Radical Utopia” My dissertation researches American resistance movements, focusing on nineteenth-century Transcendentalism and the Chicano/a movements of the…