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This Land Was Mexican Once: Histories of Resistance from Northern California
by Linda Heidenreich  Synopsis The territory of Napa County, California, contains more than grapevines. The deepest roots belong to Wappo-speaking peoples, a group whose history has since been buried by the stories of Spanish colonizers, Californios (today's Latinos), African...
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Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861
by Raoel Ramos Publisher Comments Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Ral Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with...
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Wetback Nation: The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border
by Peter Laufer Publisher Comments Peter Laufer's explosive proposals for the U.S.-Mexican border go far beyond President Bush's initiative to ease restrictions on immigration. Mr. Laufer argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open, with a free flow of people between the...
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American Chica Two Worlds One Childhood
by Marie Arana Publisher Comments In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply...
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Hispanic Nation: Culture, Politics, and the Constructing of Identity
by Geoffrey E Fox Publisher Comments A new ethnic identity is being constructed in the United States: the Hispanic nation. Overcoming age-old racial, regional, and political differences, Americans of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other Spanish-language origins are beginning to imagine...
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Almost a Woman
by Esmeralda Santiago Publisher Comments From a three-room apartment in Brooklyn occupied by ten family members, Esmeralda Santiago begins a journey that is both a triumphant struggle for identity and independence, and a mother's worst nightmare. Challenged by language barriers, cultural...
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The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez
by Jimmy Breslin Publisher Comments One of America's most respected journalists relates the true story of a Mexican immigrant construction worker who is buried in concrete at a local job site--bringing to mind Pietro Di Donato's classic novel about the Italian working class, "Christ in...
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Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
by Gregory Rodriguez Publisher Comments Wide-ranging and provocative, Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds offers an unprecedented account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican Americans will have on the collective character of our nation. In considering the...
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Between Two Islands
by Sherri Grasmuck Publisher Comments Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too often distorted by memories of earlier European migrations and by a tendency to generalize from the more familiar cases of Mexico and Puerto Rico. "Between...
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The Noise of Infinite Longing: A Memoir of a Family--And an Island
by Lopez Torregrosa Lu Publisher Comments A beautifully written memoir about a Puerto Rican family, whose siblings reunite for the first time upon their mother's death, after having scattered to various places and various lives after they reached early adulthood. It is also a universal story...
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Conversations with Ilan Stavans (La Plaza)
by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments For almost twenty years, llan Stavans-described by the Washington Post as "Latin American's liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast"--has interviewed path-breaking intellectuals and artists in a wide range of media. As host...
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Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation
by Linda Chavez Publisher Comments Are Hispanics making itachieving the American dream following the pattern of other ethnic groups? This controversial book shatters the myth that 20 million His panicsfast becoming the nations largest minorityare a permanent underclass. Chavez considers...
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
by Philippe Bourgois Publisher Comments In this compelling study of the crack business in East Harlem, Philippe Bourgois argues that a cultural struggle for respect has led some residents of 'El Barrio' away from the legal job market, and into a downward spiral of crime and poverty. During his...
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No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, & Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940
by Sarah Deutsch Publisher Comments Long after the Mexican-American War brought the Southwest under the United States flag, Anglos and Hispanics within the region continued to struggle for dominion. From the arrival of railroads through the height of the New Deal, Sarah Deutsch explores...
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English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas
by Coco Fusco Publisher Comments Essays, performance scripts, and interviews by one of America's emerging art critics....
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No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940
by Sarah Deutsch Publisher Comments Long after the Mexican-American War brought the Southwest under the United States flag, Anglos and Hispanics within the region continued to struggle for dominion. From the arrival of railroads through the height of the New Deal, Sarah Deutsch explores...
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Memories of Chicano History: The Life & Narrative of Bert Corona
by Mario T. Garcia Publisher Comments Who is Bert Corona? Though not readily identified by most Americans, nor indeed by many Mexican Americans, Corona is a man of enormous political commitment whose activism has spanned much of this century. Now his voice can be heard by the wide audience...
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Reflexiones 1998: New Directions in Mexican American Studies
by Yolanda C Padilla Publisher Comments Reflexiones is an annual review of the work in progress of scholars affiliated with the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. It may also include outside works derived from center-sponsored presentations. Reflexiones...
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The Brick People
by Alejandro Morales Publisher Comments This engrossing historical novel traces the growth of California from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries by following the development of the Simons Brick Factory. With an attention to historical reality blended with myth and legend, the prolific...
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Pobre Raza!: Violence, Justice, and Mobilization Among Mexico Lindo Immigrants, 1900-1936
by F Arturo Rosales Publisher Comments Fleeing the social and political turmoil spawned by the Mexican Revolution, massive numbers of Mexican immigrants entered the southwestern United States in the early decades of the twentieth century. But instead of finding refuge, many encountered harsh,...
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