Hispanic American Studies

This new reality -- the Latinization of the United States -- is driven by forces that reach well beyond U.S. borders. It asserts itself demographically, politically, in the workplace, and in daily life. The perception that Latinos are now positioned to...

For the Achi, one of the several Mayan ethnic groups indigenous to Guatemala, the music of the marimba serves not only as a form of entertainment but also as a form of communication, a vehicle for memory, and an articulation of cultural identity. Sergio...

The stark reality of all life, from the biology of the food chain incorporating all living beings to the social stratification and hierarchies of human cultures, revolves around violence -- physical or psychological. That unavoidable, black-and-white,...

Jigsaw puzzles' notorious complexity and mega-multiple, amorphously-shaped pieces provide an appropriate metaphor for the navigating and maneuvering necessary throughout all aspects of human dynamics. Involvement comprises not only efforts by an...

Beardstown and Monmouth, Illinois, two rural Midwestern towns, have been transformed by immigration in the last three decades. This book examines how Mexican immigrants who have made these towns their homes have integrated legally, culturally, and...

Honorable Mention for the National Women's Studies Association's 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize2021 Finalist Best LGBTQ+ Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards2022 John Leo & Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored,...

As Mexican migrants have found new lives in the United States, the appearance of migrant organizations reflects the revitalization of ancestral community life. One example, the Binational Oaxacan Indigenous Front, includes participants from cities along...

The Art of Healing Latinos collects the wisdom of health professionals who have particular expertise in treating Latino patients. Their knowledge comes from many years of service in fields that range from pediatrics to geriatrics, oncology to psychology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816541454Author Mario T. GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 405g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816530038Author Dylan A. T. MinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 426g

Check out "http://www.caminobluff.com/acahome.htm" target="new">"A Class Apart" - the new PBS American Experience documentary that explores this historic case! In 1952 in Edna, Texas, Pete Hernandez, a twenty-one-year-old cotton picker, got into a fight...

From the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century juvenile reformatories served as citizen-building institutions and a political tool of state racism in post-emancipation America. New South advocates cemented their regional affiliation by using these...

Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawai'i is the first book to examine the collective history and contemporary experiences of the Latinx population of Hawai'i. This study reveals that contrary to popular discourse, Latinx migration to Hawai'i is not a recent...

Examining how encounters produced by migration lead to intimacies, ranging from sexual, spiritual, and neighbourly to hateful and violent, Jane Juffer considers the significant changes that have occurred in small towns following an influx of Latinos to...

In the last quarter of the twentieth century a considerable number of Spanish films were involved in the task of essaying the nation, that is, of attempting to make it or make it over, of trying to reshape a national identity inexorably dictated by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816539567Author Lara MedinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

In 2006, millions of Latinos mobilized in opposition to H.R. 4437, an immigration proposal pending before the US Congress. In her new book, Heather Silber Mohamed suggests that these unprecedented protests marked a turning point for the Latino...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816500864Author John H.M. LaslettFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 330g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816542758Author Trevor BoffoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816540396Author Roberto D. HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816545018Author Frederick Luis AldamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

The 2016 election saw more Latino votes than the record voter turnout of the 2012 election. The essays in this volume provide a highly detailed analysis of the state and national impact Latino voters had in what will be remembered as one of the biggest...

The Other Latinos addresses an important topic: the presence in the United States of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants from countries other than Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Focusing on the Andes, Central America, and Brazil, the book brings...

Using the U.S. wall at the border with Mexico as a focal point, two experts examine the global surge of economic and environmental refugees, presenting a new vision of the relationships between citizen and migrant in an era of "Juan Crow," which...

Aren't lowriders always gangbangers? And, don't they always hold high status in their neighborhoods? Contrary to both stereotypes, the people who build and drive lowrider cars perform diverse roles while mobilizing a distinctive aesthetic that is...

The Chicano Studies Reader, the best-selling anthology of articles from Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded with a group of essays that focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth. This section, Generations against Exclusion, joins...

Four decades ago, the Cuban revolution captured the world's attention and imagination. Its impact around the world was as much cultural as geopolitical. Within Cuba, the state developed a strictly defined national and collective memory that led directly...

Originally published in the tumult of 1996, in an era of new nativism and panic about the Latinization of America, Anything But Mexican solidified Rodolfo Acuna's place as "the W.E.B. Du Bois of Chicano Studies." A stirring, insightful chronicle of Los...

In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jimenez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He chronicles a history of violence resulting from...

In this book Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas explores how Puerto Ricans in Chicago construct and perform nationalism. Contrary to characterizations of nationalism as a primarily unifying force, Ramos-Zayas finds that it actually provides the vocabulary to highlight...

Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group. Constituting Central American-Americans is an...

Forging People explores the way in which Hispanic American thinkers in Latin America and Latino/a philosophers in the United States have posed and thought about questions of race, ethnicity, and nationality, and how they have interpreted the most...

Dead Subjects is an impassioned call for scholars in critical race and ethnic studies to engage with Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Antonio Viego argues that Lacanian theory has the potential to begin rectifying the deeply flawed way that ethnic and...

In A Kiss across the Ocean Richard T. Rodriguez examines the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their Latinx audiences in the United States since the 1980s. Melding memoir with cultural criticism, Rodriguez spotlights a host of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001677Author Aviva ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 17mm

Part history, part political analysis, and part memoir, Mexifornia is an intensely personal work by one of our most important writers. Victor Davis Hanson, known for his military histories and his social commentary, is a fifth-generation Californian who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250850058Author Nikhil GoyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Born in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldua was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldua played a major role in shaping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250299437Author Jennine Capo CrucetFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 188gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Northern California Book Reviewers Award (previously BABRA) 2018 and Ridenhour Prizes 2018. Short-listed for L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2017 and...