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“laura halperin”

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  • Intersections of Harm

    Narratives of Latina Deviance and Defiance

    by Laura Halperin ...
    In this innovative new study, Laura Halperin examines literary representations of harm inflicted on Latinas’ minds and bodies, and on the places Latinas inhabit, but she also explores how hope can be found amid so much harm. Analyzing contemporary memoirs and novels by Irene Vilar, Loida Maritza Pérez, Ana Castillo, Cristina García, and Julia Alvarez, she argues that the individual harm ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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  • News for All the People

    The Epic Story of Race and the American Media

    by Juan Gonzalez, Joseph Torres ...
    A new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the storyFrom the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed to—and every so often, combated—racial oppression. News for All the People reveals how racial segregation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Borderlands of Race

    Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town

    by Jennifer R. Nájera ...
    Throughout much of the twentieth century, Mexican Americans experienced segregation in many areas of public life, but the structure of Mexican segregation differed from the strict racial divides of the Jim Crow South. Factors such as higher socioeconomic status, lighter skin color, and Anglo cultural fluency allowed some Mexican Americans to gain limited access to the Anglo power structure. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination

    Edited by Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, José David Saldívar ...
    The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Díaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Díaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Mestizo State

    Reading Race in Modern Mexico

    by Joshua Lund ...
    The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been transformed in Mexico from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Starting with the Porfiriato, Joshua Lund investigates the rise of a racialized “mestizo state,” its reinvention after the Mexican Revolution, and its mobilization as a critical lever that would act both on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • On the Border

    Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier

    by Tom Miller ...
    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 Border, a first-person travel narrative, portrays this bi-national culture, "unforgettable to every reader lucky enough to discover this gem of ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Edge

    Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print

    by Allison E. Fagan ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, the books themselves have occupied similarly precarious positions, as Chicana/o literature has struggled for economic ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Word Images

    New Perspectives on Canícula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantú

    Edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs ...
    This collection of critical essays unveils for the first time Norma Elia Cantú’s contribution as a folklorist, writer, scholar, and teacher. Word Images unites two valuable ways to view and use Cantú’s work: Part 1 comprises essays that individually examine Cantú’s oeuvre through critical analysis. Part 2 is dedicated to ideas and techniques to improve the use of this literature by teachers and ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • War Echoes

    Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production

    by Ariana E. Vigil ...
    War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post–Viet Nam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o responses to U.S. intervention in Central America and the Middle East. These responses evolved over the ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Archives of Dispossession

    Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848–1960

    by Karen R. Roybal ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    One method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property rights to Mexican landowners, which led to dispossession. Many historical accounts overlook this colonial impact on Indigenous and Mexican peoples, and existing studies that do tackle this subject tend to privilege the male experience. Here, Karen R. Roybal recenters the focus of dispossession on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Latinx Literature Unbound

    Undoing Ethnic Expectation

    by Ralph E. Rodriguez ...
    Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. Extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category under which we group this literature. Latinx ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context

    Edited by Franklin W. Knight, Teresita Martínez-Vergne ...
    The Caribbean ranks among the earliest and most completely globalized regions in the world. From the first moment Europeans set foot on the islands to the present, products, people, and ideas have made their way back and forth between the region and other parts of the globe with unequal but inexorable force. An inventory of some of these unprecedented multidirectional exchanges, this volume ... Read more

    $24.69 USD