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Songs My Mother Sang to Me: An Oral History of Mexican American Women
by Patricia Pre Martin  Book News Annotation In ten oral histories recorded by Martin, Mexican American women of the Southwest reach as far back as the turn of the century to recall family history and genealogy, secular and religious traditions, work and leisure, living conditions, and personal...
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Mama: Latina Daughters Celebrate Their Mothers
by Maria Perez Brown Publisher Comments Nothing comes close to the emotional bond that exists between a mother and her daughter. Through the fascinating personal histories of some of the most influential Latinas in America, Mamá is a testament to the love, hard work, and commitment Latina...
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Drink Cultura : Chicanismo (92 Edition)
by Jose Antonio Burciaga Publisher Comments This book is about the Chicano experience of living within, between and sometimes outside of two cultures -- the damnation and salvation, and the celebration of it all....
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Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
by Ruben Martinez Publisher Comments A moving account of a family's odyssey by "one of the brightest voices of a new generation of Hispanic writers" (Washington Post) The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world, breached daily by Mexicans in search of work...
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Chicanas/Chicanos at the Crossroads: Social, Economic, and Political Change
by David R Maciel Book News Annotation Summarizes developments made by Chinese mathematicians on the subjects since the 1950s. Offers survey articles and recent research results on such topics as Hopf algebra, representation theory, semigroups, infinite groups, homological algebra, module...
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Jubana!: The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cubana Goddess
by Gigi Anders Publisher Comments According to Gigi Anders, when you're a Jubana in America, or a Cuban Jewess in the U.S. of A.!, you have to know you're heading straight into the mondo-bizarro jaws of cross-cultural hell -- not every message you're given by your family and Juban...
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Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Includes CD (Global Music)
by Daniel Sheehy Publisher Comments Mariachi Music in America is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for...
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Barrios and Borderlands: Cultures of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
by Denis Lynn Heyck Publisher Comments b /b b i Barrios and Borderlands /i /b paints a portrait of the complex and fascinating mixture of Latino cultures in the United States today. This unique anthology embraces a broad range of genres, disciplines and ethnicities. It highlights the...
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de Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
by Elizabeth Martinez Publisher Comments Elizabeth Martinez's unique Chicana voice arises from over 30 years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation and Chicano/a empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martinez presents the radical Latina perspective on race...
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Revolt of the Cockroach People
by Oscar Zeta Acosta Publisher Comments The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the...
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Finding Manana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus
by Mirta Ojito Publisher Comments Born in Havana and raised there until the unprecedented events of the Mariel boatlift brought her to Miami, the author was the one teenager among more than 100,000 fellow refugees. This is her vibrant memoir of life in Cuba and the wrenching departure....
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Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey
by Ariel Dorfman Publisher Comments In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman switched...
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Sage Series on Race and Ethnic Relations #7: Latinos in a Changing Us Economy: Comparative Perspectives on Growing Inequality
by Rebecca Morales Synopsis The 1980s were not good economic times for Latinos in the United States. The contributors to Latinos in a Changing U.S. Economy examine the cause of this phenomenon and the long-term consequences for the Hispanic population. How much, they wonder, can be...
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Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States
by Gaston Espinosa Publisher Comments The Latino community in the United States is commonly stereotyped as Roman Catholic and politically passive. Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States challenges and revises these stereotypes by demonstrating the critical influence of...
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North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of the United States; New Edition, Updated by Matt S. Meier
by Carey Mcwilliams Publisher Comments Carey McWilliams' North From Mexico, first published in 1949, is a classic survey of Chicano history that continues to have a major influence on studies of the Mexican-American experience today. Widely used in college courses on Chicano and Southwestern...
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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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Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Tradition #09: Voices in the Kitchen: Views of Food and the World from Working-Class Mexican and Mexican American Women
by Meredith E Abarca Publisher Comments Through the ages and across cultures, women have carved out a domain in which their cooking allowed them to express themselves, strengthen family relationships, and create a world of shared meanings with other women. In Voices in the Kitchen, Meredith E....
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Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict, and Solidarity
by Gilda L Ochoa Publisher Comments On the surface, Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants to the United States seem to share a common cultural identity but often make uneasy neighbors. Discrimination and assimilationist policies have influenced generations of Mexican Americans so that...
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The Turkish Lover
by Esmeralda Santiago 
Publisher Comments The long-awaited new memoir by the author of When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman. A Merloyd Lawrence Book....
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Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California (California Legacy Book)
by Rick Heide Publisher Comments Here is a fresh, vigorous body of work, ranging from Jaime de Angulo's visions of Spaniards and Indians to the classic Chicano novels of Jose Antonio Villarreal and Raymond Barrio, and from the nineteenth-century childhood memories of Mariano Guadalupe...
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