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Hard Line : Life and Death on the Us-mexico Border (04 Edition)
by Ken Ellingwood  Publisher Comments The Southwestern border is one of the most fascinating places in America, a region of rugged beauty and small communities that coexist across the international line. In the past decade, the area has also become deadly as illegal immigration has shifted...
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Communities Without Borders
by David Bacon Publisher Comments In his stunning work of photojournalism and oral history, Bacon documents the new reality of the migrant experience: the creation of transnational communities. 148 halftones....
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U.S. Chicanas and Latinas Within a Global Context: Women of Color at the Fourth World Women's Conference
by Irene I Blea Publisher Comments Using her observations of the Fourth World Women's Conference held in China in 1995 as a foundation, the author examines the history and current situation of Latinas and attempts to place them in a global context. After examining the goals, objectives...
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Key Terms in Latino: A Cultural and Literary Studies
by Paul Allatson Publisher Comments "Key Terms in Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies" is an indispensable reference source comprised of hundreds of key terms central to this important and developing field. <BR> <BR>A one-stop resource for students and teachers working in...
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Brown-eyed Children of the Sun : Lessons From the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975 (05 Edition)
by George Mariscal Publisher Comments "Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun is a new study of the Chicano/a movement, "El Movimiento, and its multiple ideologies from a broad cultural perspective. The late 1960s marked the first time U.S. society witnessed Americans of Mexican descent on a...
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Oklahoma Western Biographies #2: Cesar Chavez: A Triumph Spirit
by Griswold Del Castill Publisher Comments When farm worker and labor organizer Cesar Chavez burst upon America's national scene in 1965, U.S. readers and viewers were witnessing the emergence of a new Mexican American, or Chicano, movement. This biography of Chavez by Richard Griswold del...
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Desert Blood: Juarez Murders (07 Edition)
by Gaspardealba Publisher Comments Its the summer of 1998 and for 5 years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chicuahua desert outside of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of...
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Havana Dreams: A Story of a Cuban Family
by Wendy Gimbel Publisher Comments A fascinating, powerfully evocative story of four generations of Cuban women, through whose lives the author illuminates a vivid picture--both personal and historical--of Cuba in our century. <BR>"When I want to read a culture," writes Wendy Gimbel...
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The Struggle for the Health and Legal Protection of Farm Workers: El Cortito (Hispanic Civil Rights)
by Maurice Jourdane Publisher Comments This book chronicles Jourdane's decade-long struggle to advocate for a state ban of the short hoe and his efforts to protect other civil and human rights of California field workers....
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Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers
by Hector A Torres Synopsis Hector A. Torres conducted these interviews with today's popular Chicano/a writers, asking each about language and life between languages, about the creative drive that has guided them in their craft and commits them to their art. In sharing their...
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
by Juan Gonzalez Publisher Comments Within the next decade, Hispanics will become the largest minority group in the United States. The new immigrants have ignited a vibrant Latin explosion in popular culture and deeply affected American society. Spanning 500 years-from the first New World...
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Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen
by Reymundo Sanchez Publisher Comments This is a raw and powerful memoir not only of one woman’s struggle to survive the streets but also of her ascent to the top ranks of the new mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs were members of her own. At age five...
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Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados: Class & Culture on the South Texas Border
by Chad Richardson Publisher Comments The Valley of South Texas, a recent joke goes, is a great place to live. It's so close to the United States. Culturally, this borderland region is both Mexican and Anglo-American, and its people span the full spectrum, from a minority who wish to remain...
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Cultural Erotics in Cuban America
by Ricardo L Ortz Publisher Comments Miami is widely considered the center of Cuban-American culture. However vital to the diasporic communities' identity, Miami is not the only--or necessarily the most profound--site of cultural production. Looking beyond South Florida, Ricardo L. Ortiz...
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The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border
by David Bacon Publisher Comments Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation of our everyday lives is produced along the U.S./Mexico border in a world largely hidden from our view. Based on gripping firsthand accounts, this book...
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Havana-Miami: The U S-Cuba Migration Conflict
by Jesus Arboleya Publisher Comments In the summer of 1994, the Caribbean Sea became the scene of a mass exodus of Cubans as they launched their homemade rafts in the direction of the United States.<P>What were the origins of this "rafters crisis"? How was this wave of Cuban migration...
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Foreigners in Their Native Land : Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans ((Rev)03 Edition)
by David J. Weber Publisher Comments Dozens of selections from firsthand accounts, introduced by David J. Weber's essays, capture the essence of the Mexican American experience in the Southwest from the time the first pioneers came north from Mexico....
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Rebirth: Mexican L.a. From the Great Migration-depression
by Douglas Monroy Publisher Comments This is a sweeping study of the making of Mexican Los Angeles from around 1910 to the 1940s, one of the most dramatic and historically vibrant periods in the history of Los Angeles and its Mexican communitites....
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Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader (Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nation)
by Denise A Segura Publisher Comments Women's migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating. This development gives rise to new social negotiations, which have not been well examined in migration studies until now. This...
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187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007
by Juan Felipe Herrera Publisher Comments A hybrid collection of texts written and performed on the road, from Mexico City to San Francisco, from Central America to central California, illustrated throughout with photos and artwork. Rants, manifestos, newspaper cutups, street theater, anti...
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