Hispanic American Studies

Using interdisciplinary performance studies and cultural studies frameworks, Laura G. Gutierrez examines the cultural representation of queer sexuality in the contemporary cultural production of Mexican female and Chicana performance and visual artists...

This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780-82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903...

One of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of non-violence, and effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause. Through his efforts, he helped achieve dignity, fair...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807012741Author Tanya Kateri HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807020135Author Tanya Kateri HernandezFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Italy has grappa, Russia has vodka, Jamaica has rum. Around the world, certain drinks-especially those of the intoxicating kind-are synonymous with their peoples and cultures. For Mexico, this drink is tequila. For many, tequila can conjure up scenes of...

It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The exploitation of slave labor led to a form of proto-globalization in which violence was...

In Disappearing Rooms Michelle Castaneda lays bare the criminalization of race enacted every day in US immigration courts and detention centers. She uses a performance studies perspective to show how the theatrical concept of mise-en-scene offers new...

During the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of Aztlan, homeland of the ancient Aztecs, served as a unifying force in an emerging cultural renaissance. Does the term remain useful? This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection...

Calypso, with its diverse cultural heritage, was the most significant Caribbean musical form from World War I to Trinidad and Tobago Independence in 1962. Though wildly popular in mid-1950s America, Calypso--along with other music from "the island of...

When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534981Author Joshua DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in...

In Eros Ideologies Laura E. Perez explores the decolonial through Western and non-Western thought concerning personal and social well-being. Drawing upon Jungian, people-of-color, and spiritual psychology alongside non-Western spiritual philosophies of...

An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla Perez in 1995. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned in documentaries, magazines, websites, monuments,...

2023 Int'l Latino Book Award Honorable MentionsThis important book focuses on how women of colour, children of immigrants, and other minoritized groups are predisposed to workplace imposter syndrome-and charts a path forward for self-advocacy and...

Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaeton, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaeton musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of...

According to legend, on December 8, 1531, the Virgin Mary appeared to the newly Christianized Juan Diego on the Mexican hill of Tepeyacac. As proof of her divine visit, she miraculously imprinted her image upon his mantle. That image, known as Our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982184896Author Marie AranaFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 155mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137436Author Juan GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 141mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438465142Author Vanessa K. ValdesFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language...

In The Anzalduan Theory Handbook AnaLouise Keating provides a comprehensive investigation of the foundational theories, methods, and philosophies of Gloria E. Anzaldua. Through archival research and close readings of Anzaldua's unpublished and published...

Home - signaling a dwelling, residence or place of origin - embodies one of the most basic concepts for understanding an individual or group within a larger physical and social environment. Yet home has been a little noted, although prevalent, feature in...

A Pulitzer Prize FinalistRodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to...

In Domestic Economies, Susanna Rosenbaum examines how two groups of women-Mexican and Central American domestic workers and the predominantly white, middle-class women who employ them-seek to achieve the "American Dream." By juxtaposing their...

Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many-Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns-are voices who...

In 1968 Miguel ""Mickey"" Melendez was a college student, developing pride in his Cuban and Puerto Rican cultural identity and becoming increasingly aware of the effects of social inequality on Latino Americans. Joining with other...

In the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Princesa of the Periphery explores this Disney property using multiple case studies to understand its approach to girlhood and Latinidad. Following the circuit of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849351669Author Cristina TzintzunFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 378g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440803802Author Roger BrunsFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Greenwood Publishing Group IncPublisher Greenwood Publishing Group Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892746757Author Patricia GheroviciFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

By 2000, Lawrence, Massachusetts, became New England's first Latino-majority city, and Latinos-mainly Dominicans and Puerto Ricans-currently make up nearly three-quarters of its population. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798822950245Author John Y FernandezFormat HardbackPage Count 34Imprint Palmetto PublishingPublisher Palmetto PublishingWeight(grams) 222g

Tom Miller's On the Border frames the land between the United States and Mexico as a Third Country, one 2,000 miles long and twenty miles wide. This Third Country has its own laws and its own outlaws. Its music, language, and food are unique. On the...

By the year 2000, Mexicans and other Latinos will comprise fifty percent of the population of Los Angeles. In this new book, the author of the widely praised Occupied America describes the harsh realities facing Chicanos in LA today.A classic of Chicano...

Mexican American Health: Historical, Social, and Cultural Perspectives helps readers better understand the multifaceted aspects that influence health disparities and inequities confronted by Mexican Americans today. It departs from traditional medical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480870857Author Anelly Schwab AlfaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466938922Author Ndubisi Nwafor-EjelinmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 152g