Fatherhood in the Borderlands: A Daughters Slow Approach Perez Domino Renee
Fatherhood in the Borderlands: A Daughters Slow Approach Perez Domino Renee As a young girl growing up in Houston, Texas, in the 1980s, Domino Perez spent her free time either devouring books or…
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Fatherhood in the Borderlands: A Daughters Slow Approach Perez Domino Renee
As a young girl growing up in Houston, Texas, in the 1980s, Domino Perez spent her free time either devouring books or watching films--and thinking, always thinking, about the media she consumed. Part cultural history, part literary criticism, part memoir, Fatherhood in the Borderlands takes an incisive look at the value of creative inquiry while it examines the nuanced portrayal of Mexican American fathers in literature and film.Perez reveals a shifting tension in the literal and figurative borderlands of popular narratives and shows how form, genre, and subject work to determine the roles Mexican American fathers are allowed to occupy. The meaningful connections between these media and how we learn form the basis of Perez's "slow" research approach to race, class, and gender in the borderlands.
She also calls our attention to the cultural landscape that has allowed