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Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism and Chicana/O Literature (Chicana Matters)
by Sheila Ma Contreras  Publisher Comments Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature examines a broad array of texts that have contributed to the formation of an indigenous strand of Chicano cultural politics. In particular, this book exposes the ethnographic and poetic discourses...
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Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago
by Nicholas De Genova Publisher Comments While Chicago has the second-largest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much-needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of...
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Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
by Ruben Martinez Publisher Comments The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world, breached daily by Mexicans in search of work. Thousands die crossing the line and those who reach "the other side" are branded illegals, undocumented and unprotected. Crossing...
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Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon
by Lynn Stephen Publisher Comments "Where most research on things 'transnational' is anchored on one side of the border or the other, "Transborder Lives" is conceptually and empirically well grounded throughout the geographic, national, social, political, and economic spaces within which...
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Americanos: Latino Life in the United States
by Edward James Olmos Synopsis This spirited bilingual book accomplishes a rare feat--through stirring photographs and rich text, it captures the full spectrum of Latino life in the United States. 230 color & b&w photos....
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How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life
by Tom (edt) Miller Publisher Comments In this eloquent, inspiring collection, nearly 60 accomplished Latinos contribute fascinating, revealing, and often touching essays on the very personal process each went through to master the quirks and challenges of the English language....
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Hispanic Condition : the Future Power of a People (Rev 01 Edition)
by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments “ A landmark study that explores with defiance and originality the convoluted Latino identity.”...
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There's No Jose Here: Following the Hidden Lives of Mexican Immigrants
by Gabriel Thompson Publisher Comments Mexican immigration has become one of the most polarizing issues of Bush's second term and will remain a central issue in the coming years. Where once Mexicans had a sizable presence in a few select states like California, Texas, Arizona, and New York...
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Mexican New York : Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (05 Edition)
by Robert Courtney Smith Publisher Comments Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, Mexican New York offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants and their children in New York and in Mexico. Robert Courtney Smith's groundbreaking study sheds new light on...
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Heading south, looking north :a bilingual journey
by Ariel Dorfman Publisher Comments Ariel Dorfman has been hailed as one of the "greatest living Latin American novelists" and "a storyteller of almost mythic intensity". In his brilliant memoir, Heading South, Looking North, Dorfman explores the many exiles of a life torn, from age two...
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America
by Richard Rodriguez 
Publisher Comments In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception — since the moment the African and the European met...
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Que Onda?: Urban Youth Culture and Border Identity
by Cynthia L Bejarano Publisher Comments Angel was born in Arizona and is part of the in-crowd. She likes clubbing, dancing, and going to car shows. Betzayra is from Mexico City and, despite polio-related disabilities, is the confident group leader of the Mexican girls. Arturo is also from...
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American Dreams
by Edu Gonzalez Viaana Publisher Comments This is the English translation of Viana's award winning collection of stories that follows the struggle of immigrants to adapt to life in a foreign land....
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The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place
by Judith Adle Hellman Publisher Comments By the acclaimed author of the bestselling Mexican Lives, a surprising, behind-the-headlines look at the lives of Mexican migrants, in the tradition of Oscar Lewis's classic Five Families "Either you work, or you work. Those are the two choices!"—...
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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
by Oscar Zeta Acosta Publisher Comments Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite...
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Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America
by Castillo Guilbault Publisher Comments In this affectionate memoir, Guilbault invites us into her girlhood, revealing what it was like to grow up as a Mexican immigrant in a farming community during the turbulent 1960s. She recalls her early struggles to learn English, to fit in with...
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Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa
by Jacques E. Levy Publisher Comments “[An] exceptionally interesting and intimate oral history . . . Against a background of motels and all-night cafés and strikes, the high relief in which the characters stand out is truly fascinating. Jacques Levy’s biography of Chavez...
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American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
by Maria Arana Publisher Comments From her father's genteel Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet from 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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Constructing Identities in Mexican American Political Organizations: Choosing Issues, Taking Sides
by Benjamin Marquez Publisher Comments The formation of a group identity has always been a major preoccupation of Mexican American political organizations, whether they seek to assimilate into the dominant Anglo society or to remain separate from it. Yet organizations that sought to represent...
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America
by Richard Rodriguez
Publisher Comments America is browning. As politicians, schoolteachers, and grandparents attempt to decipher what that might mean, Richard Rodriguez argues America has been brown from its inception, as he himself is. As a brown man, I think . . . (But do we really think...
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