1. Introduction Angie C. Chabram and Rosa Linda Fregoso 2. The emergence of the right in Chicano discourse Richard Chabran 3. Chicana/o studies as oppositional ethnography Angie C. Chabram 4. Chicana Feminism: in the tracks of the native woman Norma Alarcon 5. Politics, representation and the emergence of a Chicana aesthetics Alvina Quintana 6. Born in East L.A. and the politics of Representation Rosa Linda Fregoso 7. Corridos on stage and on film: what price mainstream? Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez 8. Ideology, ethnicity and academia Rosaura Sanchez 9. Socrates, curriculum and the chicano/chicana: Allan Bloom and the myth of U.S. higher education Mike Soldatenko-Gutierrez 10. The theoretical construction of the other in post-modernist thought: Latinos in the new urban political economy Ray Rocco