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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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Mestizo in America (06 Edition)
by 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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Dying To Cross : Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History (05 Edition)
by Jorge Ramos Publisher Comments From Emmy award winning journalist and bestandndash;selling author, comes a gripping narrative account of the tragic deaths of 19 immigrants in Texas as they tried to make their way across the Mexicanandndash;American border, and the 25 year old female...
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The Lost Land: The Chicano Image of the Southwest
by John R Chavez Publisher Comments A fascinating intellectual history of Hispano self-perception, this book traces the changes in Hispano views of the Southwest form earliest times to the present, particularly since the 1848 signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo....
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Latinos : Remaking America (02 Edition)
by Marcelo M. Suarez-orozco Publisher Comments Probing the themes of transnationalism, race, gender, and class, this pathbreaking volume by a group of eminent scholars provides the most incisive and comprehensive look to date at what every citizen needs to know about the Latino experience in the...
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Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States
by Hector Tobar Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar takes readers on the definitive tour of the Spanish-speaking United States--a parallel nation, 35 million strong, that is changing the very notion of what it means to be an American in unprecedented and...
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Foreigners in Their Native Land: Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans
by David J Weber Publisher Comments Most recent writing about Mexican Americans deals only with the twentieth century. This book provides the much-needed historical perspective that is essential for a full understanding of the present. Dozens of selections from firsthand accounts...
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Chicano Popular Culture: Que Hable El Pueblo (Mexican American Experience)
by Charles M Tatum Book News Annotation Designed for classroom use, this primer addresses various aspects of Chicano popular culture, with descriptions of popular music, critical introductions to Chicano authors, discussions of art, and descriptions of religious holidays, fiestas, and other...
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Ask a Mexican
by Gustavo Arellano 
Publisher Comments DEAR MEXICAN: WHAT IS ¡ASK A MEXICAN? Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. I explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions...
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The Chalupa Rules
by Mario Bosquez Publisher Comments New York City's first Chicano news anchorman teaches you the tools to succeed using a game of Mexican bingo. Mario BsquezNew York City's first full-time Chicano television anchorgrew up in a cramped, three-room apartment where he and his family often...
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Luis Leal: An Auto/Biography
by Mario T Garcia Publisher Comments Professor Luis Leal is one of the most outstanding scholars of Mexican, Latin American, and Chicano literatures and the dean of Mexican American intellectuals in the United States. He was one of the first senior scholars to recognize the viability and...
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Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Growth, Development, and Quality of Life
by Joan B Anderson Publisher Comments The U.S. and Mexican border regions have experienced rapid demographic and economic growth over the last fifty years. In this analysis, Joan Anderson and James Gerber offer a new perspective on the changes and tensions pulling at the border from both...
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King Tiger: The Religious Vision of Reies Lopez Tijerina
by Rudy V Busto Publisher Comments "Right now we look like a cricket. What is a cricket? King of the Insects; a little, tiny animal. All the cricket can do is [say] 'cricket, cricket, cricket.' Just a noise, that's all. But you know, if that cricket gets in the ear of the lion and...
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Latin Journey
by Alejandro Portes Publisher Comments "Latin Journey" details an eight-year study of Mexican and Cuban immigrants....
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Latina Realities: Essay on Healing, Migration, and Sexuality (New Directions in Theory and Psychology)
by Oliva M Espin Publisher Comments A retrospective of fifteen years, this book brings together, for the first time, Oliva Espín’s previously published articles and conference papers. Together, these writings reveal the complexity and encompassing quality of Espín’s...
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American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins
by Sarah J Mahler Publisher Comments American Dreaming chronicles in rich detail the struggles of immigrants who have fled troubled homelands in search of a better life in the United States, only to be marginalized by the society that they hoped would embrace them. Sarah Mahler draws from...
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