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  • Sowing the Sacred

    Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California

    by Lloyd Daniel Barba ...
    Sowing the Sacred traces the development of Pentecostalism among Mexican-American migrant laborers in California's agricultural industry from the 1910s to the 1960s. At the time, Pentecostalism was often seen as a distasteful new sect rife with cultish and fanatical tendencies; U.S. growers thought of Mexicans as no more than a mere workforce not fit for citizenship; and industrial agriculture was ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • Mixtec Evangelicals

    Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group

    by Mary I. O'Connor ...
    Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Latina/o Theologies

    Edited by Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre, Dr. Edwin David Aponte ...
    Handbook of Latino/a Theologies explores the varied theological, ecclesiastical, spiritual, and cultural expressions associated with the term 'Latino/a or Hispanic theology.' There is no single definition of Hispanic/Latino theology, but rather a multiplicity of perspectives within the diverse Latino/a communities that articulate a distinctive and relevant Hispanic viewpoint. This collection of ... Read more

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  • Maya or Mestizo?

    Nationalism, Modernity, and its Discontents

    by Ronald Loewe ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    The Maya of the Yucatán have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos). At the same time, they have contended with globalization pressures, first with hemp production and more recently with increased tourism and the fast-growing influence of American-based evangelical Protestantism. Despite these pressures to turn Maya into mestizo, the citizens ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • San Miguel de Allende

    Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site

    by Lisa Pinley Covert ...
    Series series The Mexican Experience
    Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mexico, discovered that its “timeless” quality could provide a way forward. While other Mexican towns pursued policies of industrialization, San Miguel—on the economic, political, and cultural margins of revolutionary Mexico—worked to demonstrate that it ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother

    Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas

    by Roberto Cintli Rodríguez ...
    “If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.” That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States.Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Cuba's Racial Crucible

    The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750–2000

    by Karen Y. Morrison ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    This prize-winning study examines the historical interplay of racial identity, nationality, and family formation in Cuba from the 18th century to today.Since the 19th century, there have been two opposing perspectives on Cuban racial identity: one that frames Cubans as white, and one that sees them as racially mixed based on acceptance of African descent. For the past two centuries, these ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apostles of Change

    Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio

    by Felipe Hinojosa ...
    This "important and well-researched" study of 1960s urban Latino activism and religion is "brimming with the ideas and voices of . . . Latinx activists" (Llana Barber, author of Latino City).In the late 1960s, American cities found themselves in steep decline, with poor and working-class families hit the hardest. Many urban religious institutions debated whether to move to the suburbs. Against the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alabadle!

    Hispanic Christian Worship

    by Justo L. Gonzalez ...
    By looking at the wide variety of Hispanic Christian worship that exists within the Hispanic community, Alabadle! highlights the cultural, generational, and denominational elements that comprise the spectrum of Hispanic worship.Justo L. Gonzalez and seven other contributors provide an insightful look into the variety of worship styles that exist among numerous church traditions including ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Remembering the Hacienda

    Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador

    by Barry J. Lyons ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    From the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century, haciendas dominated the Latin American countryside. In the Ecuadorian Andes, Runa—Quichua-speaking indigenous people—worked on these large agrarian estates as virtual serfs. In Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador, Barry Lyons probes the workings of power on haciendas and explores the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A Companion to Mexican History and Culture

    Edited by William H. Beezley ...
    Series Book 15 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
    A Companion to Mexican History and Culture features 40 essays contributed by international scholars that incorporate ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural studies to reveal a richer portrait of the Mexican experience, from the earliest peoples to the present.Features the latest scholarship on Mexican history and culture by an array of international scholarsEssays are separated into sections ... Read more

    $199.00 USD

  • Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance

    Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico

    Edited by William H. Beezley, Cheryl E. Martin, William E. French ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    This book presents readers with scholarship on public celebrations and popular culture throughout Mexican history. Leading scholars from the Americas and Great Britain discuss aspects of Mexico's popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present. The vast range of Mexican expression is examined, including Corpus Christi celebrations, New Spain, stone murals, and folk theater. Filling a ... Read more

    $42.99 USD