Chicano While Mormon (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Mormon Studies)
by Ignacio M Garcaia and Ignacio M. Garcia
This is a memoir of the early years of a well-known Chicano scholar whose work and activism were motivated by his Mormon faith. The narrative follows him as an immigrant boy in San Antonio, Texas, who finds religion, goes to segregated schools, participates in the first major school boycott of the modern era in Texas, goes to Viet Nam where he heads an emergency room in the Mekong Delta, and then to college where he becomes involved in the Chicano Movement. Throughout this time he juggles, strug...
Poetics of Race in Latin America (Anthem Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture)
Mexico-U.S. Migration Management
by Agustin Escobar Latapi and Susan Forbes Martin
The need to understand the migration between the United States and Mexico is greater today than at any time in its century long history. Its volume and complexity are greater than most observers might have imagined even a decade ago; and it operates in a context charged with serious human, political, and security challenges. Yet, there is often confusion over the most fundamental questions about the demography, economics, and political nature of the movement and its policy responses. The editors...
El relato breve en las letras hispanicas actuales (Foro Hispanico, #11)
En este numero se reunen nueve articulos ineditos sobre aspectos del relato breve (cuento y miccorrelato) en la literatura espanola e hispanoamericana del ultimo cuarto del siglo XX. Encabezan el volumen tres colaboraciones, agrupadas juntas sea por ser de orientacion esencialmente teorica e historica, sea por presentar una vision de conjunto de un genero en un pais. Los seis articulos que siguen son comentarios a obras particulares. Los nueve trabajos son representativos al constituir un conjun...
Literaturas de Espana 1975-1998 (Foro Hispanico, #14)
Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for the Indigenous languages of the region shed light on both global issues of language revitalization and on the meaning of Indigeneity in contemporary Brazil. With 19 Indigenous languages still spoken...
An award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker chronicles her personal year-long journey to discover the truth about her ancestry through DNA testing, sharing her findings as well as her insights into controversies surrounding modern Latino identity.
Der vorliegende Band versammelt die Arbeiten von spanischen und oesterreichischen Literaturwissenschaftlern, die im Rahmen eines von Marisa Siguan (Universitat Barcelona) und Karl Wagner (Universitat Wien) geleiteten bilateralen Forschungsprojekts intertextuelle und interkulturelle Beziehungen zwischen oesterreichischer und spanischer Literatur im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert erforscht haben. Die Beitrage des Bandes konzentrieren auf folgende symptomatische Aspekte der literarisch-kulturellen Entwic...
Reform Without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State
by Assistant Professor of Political Science Alfonso Gonzales
When people ask the question, "What makes a football weekend at Notre Dame so special?"members of the Notre Dame family know that it could take an entire book to give the whole answer. This is that book. It tells the gameday story with over one hundred color photographs that bring the experience alive from the perspectives of many different groups, and its words add a context that is rich in the traditions, community connections, values, and spirit that make Notre Dame unique. Writer Bill Schmi...
Latinos in the End Zone: Conversations on the Brown Color Line in the NFL (Latino Pop Culture)
by Frederick Luis Aldama
Precarity and Belonging (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States)
by Catherine S Ramirez
Esas Ninas Cuando Crecen, ?Donde Van a Parar? (Texto y Teoria: Estudios Culturales, #35)
by Zulema Moret
Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary argues against the hackneyed rose-in-mouth cliches of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance may be used as a way to understand transformations around the world that have taken place as a result of two defining features of globalization: transnationalism and the rise of social media. Global Tangos demonstrates the cultural impact of Argentine tango in the world by assembling an unusual array of cultural narratives created in almost thir...
Self-Defense in Mexico (Latin America in Translation/en Traduccion/em Traducao)
by Luis Hernandez Navarro
In Mexico and across other parts of Latin America local Indigenous peoples have built community policing groups as a means of protection where the state has limited control over, and even complicity in, crime and violence. Luis Hernandez Navarro, a leading Mexican journalist, offers a riveting investigation of these armed self-defense groups that sprang up around the time of the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. Available in English for the first time, the book spotlights the intense precarity...