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The Emergence of Mexican AmericaRecovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture\nAuthor(s): John-Michael Rivera\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814775585, 978-0814775585\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2006 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary Studies, presented by the Western Literature Association\n In The Emergence of Mexican America, John-Michael Rivera examines the cultural, political, and legal representations of Mexican Americans and the development of US capitalism and nationhood. Beginning with the Mexican-American War of [tel] and continuing through the period of mass repatriation of US Mexican laborers in 1939, Rivera examines both Mexican-American and Anglo-American cultural production in order to tease out the complexities of the so-called \""Mexican question.\"" Using historical and archival materials, Rivera's wide-ranging objects of inquiry include fiction, non-.