{"product_id":"spanish-language-newspapers-in-new-mexico-a-gabriel-melzsndez-9780816524723","title":"Spanish-Language Newspapers in New Mexico, 1834-1958","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor more than a century, \u003c\/b\u003e Mexican American journalists used their presses to voice socio-historical concerns and to represent themselves as a determinant group of communities in Nuevo México, a particularly resilient corner of the Chicano homeland. This book draws on exhaustive archival research to review the history of newspapers in these communities from the arrival of the first press in the region to publication of the last edition of Santa Fe's \u003ci\u003eEl Nuevo Mexicano\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gabriel Meléndez details the education and formation of a generation of Spanish-language journalists who were instrumental in creating a culture of print in \u003ci\u003enativo\u003c\/i\u003e communities. He then offers in-depth cultural and literary analyses of the texts produced by \u003ci\u003elos periodiqueros\u003c\/i\u003e, establishing them thematically as precursors of the Chicano literary and political movements of the 1960s and '70s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moving beyond a simple effort to reinscribe \u003ci\u003eNuevomexicanos\u003c\/i\u003e into history, Meléndez views these newspapers as cultural productions and the work of the editors as an organized movement against cultural erasure amid the massive influx of easterners to the Southwest. Readers will find a wealth of information in this book. But more important, they will come away with the sense that the survival of \u003ci\u003eNuevomexicanos\u003c\/i\u003e as a culturally and politically viable group is owed to the labor of this brilliant generation of newspapermen who also were statesmen, scholars, and creative writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. Gabriel Meléndez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816524726\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816524723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.40w x 0.69d","brand":"A. Gabriel Meléndez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096750989567,"sku":"9780816524723","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spanish-language-newspapers-in-new-mexico-a-gabriel-melzsndez-9780816524723","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}