Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature

Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature (Oxford, 2015) examines how Chicano/a (Mexican American) literary works represent assimilation, and what those representations can teach us about race, gender, and the nature of literary discourse. Ends of Assimilation argues that Chicano/a literature illuminates and critiques assimilation sociology, which has been blind to its own work as a cultural discourse, and examines by contrast the myriad ways that Chicano/a literature imagines cultural change without falling prey to the ideology of individual boundary crossing.