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  • Technofuturos

    Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies

    by Roman de la Campa, Nicole Guidotti-Hernández, Marcia Ochoa, Jossiana Arroyo, Karina Cespedes, Arturo Arias, Teresa Carrillo, Mari Paredes, Erica Marquez, Aisha Beliso, Priscilla Renta, Alberto Sandoval Sánchez, Esther Cuesta, Ramon Solorzano, Isabel Espinal, Lisa Sánchez González ...
    Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors, Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin La-Montes, challenge conventional notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of Latinidad. The essays examine the temporality and spatiality of socio-historical ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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  • The Other Side of Paradise

    Life in the New Cuba

    by Julia Cooke ...
    Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks gelled with laundry soap, whiskey-drinking children of the elite, SanterÃtrainees, pregnant ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot and Other Plays

    by José Rivera ...
    Surrealism, magic realism and expressionism are the hallmarks of Jose Rivera’s influential body of work. This new volume collects the author’s plays written in the past five years, including References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot ("effortlessly melds otherworldly fantasy with gritty realism to make sparks fly onstage."—The Journal News), Sueño (a reworking for Pedro Calderón’s Life is a Dream) ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Business of Empire

    United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America

    by Jason M. Colby ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    "Jason M. Colby has researched and analyzed his topic―the business of empire―well. He exposes the intertwining of imperialism, expansion, racism, and corporate power. The Business of Empire is an insightful story about the interaction of U.S. overseas business and the U.S. and Central American governments. It will prove useful to scholars of U.S. imperialism, international business history, and U ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Cocoa Plantations America’S Chocolate Secret Forced Child Labor, Rape, Sodomy, Abuse of Children, Child Sex Trafficking, Child Organ Trafficking, Child Sex Slaves

    The Chocolate Industries Well Kept Secret/Harkin - Engel Protocol

    by Raymond C. Christian ...
    Children working the cocoa plantations for Americas chocolate. Would you ever dream of such abuse happening to five-year-old boys and girls, children being worked worse than animals on the cocoa plantations to get the cocoa bean, the main ingredient in chocolate, to America. The cocoa beans are covered with the blood, sweat, and tears of five-year-old children sold for slave labor to work on the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Mexploitation Cinema: A Critical History of Mexican Vampire, Wrestler, Ape-Man and Similar Films, 1957-1977

    A Critical History of Mexican Vampire, Wrestler, Ape-Man and Similar Films, 1957-1977

    by Doyle Greene ...
    Thanks in large part to an exploitation film producer and distributor named K. Gordon Murray, a unique collection of horror films from Mexico began to appear on American late-night television and drive-in screens in the 1960s. Ranging from monster movies clearly owing to the heyday of Universal Studios to the lucha libre horror films featuring El Santo and the "Wrestling Women," these low-budget ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness

    Writings, 2000-2010

    by Cherríe Moraga ...
    A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer, activist, teacher, dramatist, mother, daughter, comadre, and lesbian lover looks back on the first ten years ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Lupe Velez

    The Life and Career of Hollywood's "Mexican Spitfire"

    by Michelle Vogel ...
    Here is the first extensive, full-length biography and career record on the life and work of Mexican whirlwind Lupe Velez (1908-1944). Over the years many crude myths have surfaced about Velez, the most notorious that she "died with her head in the toilet." This biography not only studies Lupe's personal life and career--including her tempestuous marriage to Johnny Weissmuller--but also examines ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Border Rhetorics

    Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier

    by Bernadette Marie Calafell, Karma R. Chávez, Anne Teresa Demo, Lisa A. Flores, Dustin Bradley Goltz, Marouf Hasian, Julia R. Johnson, Zach Justus, Diane M. Keeling0, Toby Miller1, Kent A. Ono2, Mary Ann Villarreal3, George F. McHendry Jr4, Kimberlee Pérez Jr5, Dr. Josue David Cisneros6, Dr. Michelle A. Holling7, Dr. John Louis Lucaites8, Dr. Brian L. Ott9 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    Undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United StatesA “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Barrios to Burbs

    The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class

    by Jody Vallejo ...
    Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin population, an investigation of how Mexican immigrants and their descendants achieve upward mobility and enter the middle class is long overdue. Barrios to Burbs offers a new understanding of the Mexican American ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • House Built on Ashes

    A Memoir

    by José Antonio Rodríguez ...
    Series series Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Américas Series
    The year is 2009, and José Antonio Rodríguez, a doctoral student at Binghamton University in upstate New York, is packing his suitcase, getting ready to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with his parents in South Texas. He soon learns from his father that a drug cartel has overtaken the Mexican border village where he was born. Now, because of the violence there, he won’t be able to visit his early ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Latino Gender Gap in U.S. Politics

    by Christina E. Bejarano ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance
    Many questions remain unanswered about the observable differences in voting behavior, partisanship, and cultural attitudes among men and women. Latino political participation in the United States is generally lower than the rest of the population, mainly due to their high proportion of youth and foreign born populations that are ineligible to vote. This dynamic is slowing changing, partly as a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD