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Jorge Mariscal

Professor Emeritus

Spanish and Chicano/a Literature

Editorial Boards

  • Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
  • Latino Studies

Books

  • Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

  • Aztlán & Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War (an anthology with critical introduction), University of California Press, 1999.

  • Contradictory Subjects: Quevedo and Cervantes in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991). Co-winner of the MLA's Katherine Singer Kovács Prize for outstanding book in English in the field of Spanish literature, 1991-92.

Articles

  • "Cesar and Martin, April 1968" in Brian Behnken, ed., The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American/Mexican American Relations During the Civil Rights Era, Race and Ethnicity in the American West series, (Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, 2012).

  • "Latino/as in the U. S. Military" in Norma E. Cantú and Maria E. Fránquiz, eds., Inside the Latino/a Experience: A Latino/a Studies Reader (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010): 37-50.

  • "Bartolomé de las Casas on Imperial Ethics and the Use of Force." Reason and Its Other in Early Modernity (Spalin/Italy 1500-1700). Ed. David Castillo and Massimo Lollini. Minneapolis: Hispanic Issues. 2006.

  • "Homeland Security, Militarism, and the Future of Latinos and Latinas in the United States" Radical History Review. 2006.

  • "Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War"; Next Stop Vietnam: California and the Nation Transformed. Ed. Marcia Eymann and Charles Wollenberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

  • "Negotiating Cesár: César Chávez in the Chicano Movement." Aztlán 29 (Spring 2004).

  • "Latinos on the Frontlines, Again." Latino Studies 1 (July 2003).

  • "Left Turns in the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975," Monthly Review (July-August 2002): 59-68.

  • Review of Carroll B. Johnson, Cervantes and the Material World in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 5 (2001)

  • "Can Cultural Studies Speak Spanish?" in Toby Miller, ed. Companion to Cultural Studies (Blackwell, 2001).

  • "The Figure of the Indiano in Early Modern Spanish Writing" Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2 (2000)

  • "Reading Chicano/a Writing about the American War in Viet Nam" Aztlán 25 (Fall 2000).

  • "The Crisis of Hispanism as Apocalyptic Myth" Cervantes and His Postmodern Constituencies (New York: Garland Publishing Co, 1999).

  • "Chicanos and Latinos in the Jungle of Sports Talk Radio" Journal of Sports and Social Issues 23 (February 1999).

  • "The Role of Spain in Contemporary Race Theory" Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 2 (1998).

  • Ph.D., UC Irvine