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In Nueva York
by Nicholasa Mohr  Publisher Comments Winner of the School Library Journal's Best Book for Young Adults (1977) and the Notable Trade Book Award (1977)....
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Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration
by Sam Quinones Publisher Comments Sam Quinoness first book, True Tales From Another Mexico, was acclaimed for the way it peered into the corners of that country for its larger truths and complexities. Antonios Gun and Delfinos Dream, Quinoness second collection of nonfiction tales, does...
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Trini (Contemporary Classics by Women)
by Estela Por Trambley Publisher Comments The sole novel of beloved Chicana author Estela Portillo Trambley is an important rediscovery. This classic Mexican American coming-of-age story was written in the 1980s during the rich burgeoning of Latino literature that also brought us such writers as...
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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments 'An absorbing journey into the Latino struggle to gain social power, by the acclaimed urban historian. A fascinating account of the Latinization of the US urban landscape, Magical Urbanism forcefully shows that this is a demographic and cultural...
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Border Film Project: Migrant and Minutemen Photos from U.S. - Mexico Border
by Rudy Adler Publisher Comments Every year, thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, and every year, the Minutemen, a volunteer group of citizens who patrol the border, try to stop them. As the debate over immigration became increasingly fierce and...
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From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
by Vicki L Ruiz Publisher Comments For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative forces shaping the cultural and economic development of what is now the American Southwest. Whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, or an urban barrio, Mexican women...
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Color: Latino Voices in the Pacific Northwest
by Lorane A West Publisher Comments Color presents a tapestry of poignant conversations with people who have come from various Central and South American cultures and backgrounds, all with the common thread of speaking the Spanish language. Their professions range from attorney to school...
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Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
by Laura G0mez Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents Read the Introduction We Know We're Not White: Author Interview on San Diego Weekly Reader aGomez sets out to write aan antidote to historical amnesia about the key nineteenth-century events that produced the first Mexican...
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The Making of a Chicano Militant: Lessons from Cristal (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
by Jose Ange Gutierrez Publisher Comments Texas, for years, was a one-party state controlled by white democrats. In 1962, a young eighteen-year-old heard the first rumblings of Chicano community organization in the barrios of Cristal. The rumor in the town was that five Mexican Americans were...
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From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity (Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives)
by Juan Flores Publisher Comments Flores investigates the historical experience of Puerto Ricans in New York, reflecting their varied areas of cultural expression in the diaspora against the background of contemporary debates in Puerto Rico and recent developments in cultural theory...
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Domestica : Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (2ND 07 Edition)
by Pierrette Hondagneu-sotelo Publisher Comments In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in...
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Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings
by Alma M Garcia Publisher Comments Chicana Feminist Thought recovers the historical contributions of a generation of Chicana feminists whose activism forged a collective struggle to overcome the gender contradictions, tensions, and conflicts within the Chicano Movement. Any historical...
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Latinos in American Society & Culture #4: Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse
by Car Gutierrez Jones Publisher Comments Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, Carl Gutierrez-Jones argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. Rethinking the Borderlands is an insightful...
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Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence
by Jose Antonio Orosco Synopsis Cesar Chavez has long been heralded for his personal practice of nonviolent resistance in struggles against social, racial, and labor injustices. However, the works of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. have long overshadowed Chavez's contributions to the...
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Fluid Borders
by Lisa Garcia Bedolla Publisher Comments This provocative study of the Latino political experience offers a nuanced, in-depth, and often surprising perspective on the factors affecting the political engagement of a segment of the population that is now the nation's largest minority. Drawing...
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Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America
by William An Nericcio Publisher Comments Nericcio engages in close readings of rogue/icons Rita Hayworth, Speedy Gonzalez, Lupe Vé lez, and Frida Kahlo, as well as Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil and the comic artistry of Gilbert Hernandez. He playfully yet devastatingly discloses...
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Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise 1940-1990 (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History & Culture)
by Juan Gomez Quinones Publisher Comments How a new style of politics coalesced into an ethnic populism known as the Chicano movement....
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Memories of Chicano History: 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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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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The Border Patrol Ate My Dust
by Alicia Alarcon Publisher Comments In 1979, Mexican President Jose Lopez Portilla assured his compatriots that the prosperity of the petroleum boom would reach every corner of the Republic of Mexico. The mother of the narrator of the first passage in this collection asks, "Do you believe...
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