Folklorico in the United States Unwritten Histories

Norma E. Cantú is the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in Modern Languages and Literature at Trinity University. She is the author of Fiestas in Laredo: Matachines, Quinceañeras, and George Washington's Birthday and the coeditor of meXicana Fashions: Politics, Self Adornment and Identity Construction. Olga Nájera-Ramírez is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of La Fiesta de los Tastoanes: Critical Encounters in a Mexican Festival Performance and the writer, director, and producer of the award-winning documentary La Charreada: Rodeo a la Mexicana.