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Pil Great Hispanic-Americans
by Nicolas Kanellos  Book News Annotation This accessibly written volume presents 55 two-page biographies of prominent Hispanic Americans. Coverage includes such luminaries as Nobel Prize winner Luis Alvarez, astronaut Ellen Ochoa, singer Joan Baez, and labor organizer C...
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Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona
by Eric V Meeks Publisher Comments Borders cut through not just places but also relationships, politics, economics, and cultures. Eric V. Meeks examines how ethno-racial categories and identities such as Indian, Mexican, and Anglo crystallized in Arizona's borderlands between 1880 and...
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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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Roots of Chicano Politics, 1600-1940
by Juan Gomez Quinones Publisher Comments Borderlands history from the Mexican perspective....
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An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
by Cesar Chavez Publisher Comments The first major collection of writings by civil rights leader Cesar Chavez One of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of nonviolence, and he effectively employed peaceful tactics...
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Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities
by Mary C Waters Publisher Comments Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation....
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Hurricanes and Carnivals: Essays by Chicanos, Pochos, Pachucos, Mexicanos, and Expatriates
by Lee Gutkind Publisher Comments "In Mexico," writes Ilan Stavans in the introduction to this provocative new collection on Mexican culture and politics, " [the essay] is embraced as passionately as a sport." While the American essay may be personal and confessional or erudite and...
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The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African Americans and Hispanics
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson Publisher Comments Political issues and social problems such as immigration, prison, bilingual education, employment, political jockeying, changing ethnic dynamics, and racial stereotypes that both divide and unite blacks and Latinos are examined...
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Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory (07 Edition)
by Lima Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents Read the Introduction Through a bricolage of carefully crafted textual readings, Lima has produced a text that traces the relationship between corporeality and citizenship by marking the process by which the Latino body has...
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The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami
by David Rieff Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of "Going to Miami" presents an engrossing portrait of one of America's most successful immigrant groups: Miami's exiled Cubans, who have transformed the city from tourist town into a thriving, vital, unpredictable metropolis...
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There's No Jose Here (06 Edition)
by 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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Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA
by Julia Alvarez Publisher Comments The bestselling author of "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" explores the phenomenon of the Latina sweet 15 celebration. An enlightening and entertaining portrait of contemporary Latino culture, this title also takes a critical look at the social...
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The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry
by Judith Ortiz Cofer Publisher Comments Cofer tells readers of the women's lives that entangled with hers in El Building in Patterson, New Jersey. A community transplanted from what they now view as an island paradise, these Puerto Rican families yearn for the colors and tastes of their...
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People of the Valley
by Frank Waters Publisher Comments One of Frank Waters's most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change....
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Scatter My Ashes Over Havana
by Olga Karman Publisher Comments A poet and professor intensively recreates a vast piece of personal and social history as she describes her flight from her native Cuba amid political turmoil, her struggle for a new life in the United States and, four decades later, an eventful return...
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Translated Woman Crossing the Border W
by Ruth Behar Synopsis The tenth-anniversary edition of this classic book, with a new preface Translated Woman tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between Ruth Behar, a Cuban-American feminist anthropologist, and Esperanza Hernandez, a Mexican street peddler. A brave...
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Latinos, Inc. : the Marketing and Making of a People (01 Edition)
by Arlene Davila Publisher Comments Latinos, Inc. provides a critical examination of the Hispanic marketing industry and of its role in the making and marketing of U.S. Latinos....
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Mestizo in America: Generations of Mexican Ethnicity in the Suburban Southwest
by Thomas Macias Publisher Comments How much does ethnicity matter to Mexican Americans today, when many marry outside their culture and some can't even stomach menudo? This book addresses that question through a unique blend of quantitative data and firsthand interviews with third-plus...
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Border-Line Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass, and Cultural Shifting
by Michelle Herrera Mulligan Publisher Comments Why, in the minds of most Americans, are Latinas still thought of as maids, seductresses, and booty-shaking salsa divas? <P>Never has the concept of Latina identity been more relevant. Also, never has there been a new generation of Latinas so ready...
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The Other Face of America: Chronicles of the Immigrants Shaping Our Future
by Jorge Ramos Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe BorderTijuana, Baja, California. It was cold, very cold. I was walking toward the border like a zombie, as if a magnet were pulling me to the other side and I had no will to resist. I was here, but I didn't really want to be here. Others...
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