Esas Ninas Cuando Crecen, ?Donde Van a Parar? (Texto y Teoria: Estudios Culturales, #35)
by Zulema Moret
Reform Without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State
by Assistant Professor of Political Science Alfonso Gonzales
Upsetting the Apple Cart (Columbia History of Urban Life)
by Frederick Douglass Opie
Upsetting the Apple Cart surveys the history of black-Latino coalitions in New York City from 1959 to 1989. In those years, African American and Latino Progressives organized, mobilized, and transformed neighborhoods, workplaces, university campuses, and representative government in the nation's urban capital. Upsetting the Apple Cart makes new contributions to our understanding of protest movements and strikes in the 1960s and 1970s and reveals the little-known role of left-of-center organizati...
The Latino Advantage in the Workplace
by Mariela Dabbah and Arturo Poire
Latinos in the End Zone: Conversations on the Brown Color Line in the NFL (Latino Pop Culture)
by Frederick Luis Aldama
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...
This statistical guide-replete with extensive demographics on Latino life in the United States-interprets the hard numbers and places them into historical and contemporary context, offering readers an accurate, multidimensional view of Latino life. Projections indicate that in less than 25 years, more than one in every five individuals living in the United States will be Latino. By 2050, that number will likely grow to almost one in three. How will this ongoing change in the ethnic makeup of t...
Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured U.S. Central American identity and of the ways in which this identity challenges how we frame current discussions of Latina/o, American ethnic, and diasporic identities. By...
Mexican Immigrants (Immigration to the United States)
The United States is truly a nation of immigrants, or as the poet Walt Whitman once said, a ""nation of nations."" Spanning the time from when the Europeans first came to the New World to the present day, the new ""Immigration to the United States"" set conveys the excitement of these stories to young people. Beginning with a brief preface to the set written by general editor Robert Asher that discusses some of the broad reasons why people came to the New World, both as explorers and settlers, e...
Ville Et Commerce, Deux Essais d'Histoire Hispano-Americaine (Publications de L'Universite Paris-X Nanterre, #22)
by Daniel Herrero and Bernard Kapp
From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders
by Norma Fuentes-Mayorga
Contactos Entre Los Paises Bajos Y El Mundo Iberico (Foro Hispanico, #3)
United States History from a Chicano Perspective provides students with engaging and enlightening readings that introduce them to contemporary Mesoamerica and illuminate the ways the past and present are constantly interacting within this landscape. The anthology highlights the themes of survival, resilience, and resistance, showing how Mexicans and Chicanos continue to thrive despite a history marked with grave adversity and seemingly insurmountable struggles. The readings within the anthology...
Mexican Americans in Wilmington (Images of America)
by Olivia Cueva-fernandez
This book brings together a selection of the most analytically sophisticated writing on how Latinos have been portrayed in movies, television, and other U.S. media since the early years of the twentieth century and how images have changed over time in response to social and political change.
Land of Disenchantment: Latina/O Identities and Transformations in Northern New Mexico
by Michael L Trujillo
What happens to people after an earthquake destroys their homes? What is daily life like under a humanitarian regime? Is aid a gift or is it a form of power? A House of One's Own explores these enduring questions as they unfold in a Salvadoran town in the aftermath of the 2001 earthquakes. In a lively, intimate account of the social complexities that arise in post-disaster settings, Alicia Sliwinski recounts the trajectories of fifty families who received different forms of humanitarian aid, f...