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  • Beyond Machismo

    Intersectional Latino Masculinities

    by Aída Hurtado, Mrinal Sinha ...
    Series series Chicana Matters
    Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo—a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other possible influences on men’s attitudes and behavior—is still used to define Latino men and boys in the larger social narrative. Yet a closer look reveals young, educated Latino men who are going beyond machismo to a deeper understanding of women’s ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Cuba beyond the Beach

    Stories of Life in Havana

    by Karen Dubinsky ...
    Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana’s residents—old Communist ladies, their ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Quixote's Soldiers

    A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981

    by David Montejano ...
    Series Book 26 - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    "Detail[s] the grassroots interplay among the variety of ideologies, individuals, and organizations that made up the Chicano movement in San Antonio, Texas." – Journal of American HistoryIn the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro

    Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality

    by Gloria Anzaldua ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important theoretical contributions. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Sueños Americanos

    Barrio Youth Negotiating Social and Cultural Identities

    by Julio Cammarota ...
    Education is a primary route to rewarding employment and economic security. It is particularly significant for the future prospects of children who are ethnic minorities, were born into disadvantaged economic circumstances, or are dealing with language barriers.For nearly a decade Julio Cammarota interviewed and observed Latino youth between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four who lived in a ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood

    Pioneers of Mayan Archaeology

    by Peter O. Koch ...
    Daring exploits and astounding achievements were common for two 19th century adventurers--John Lloyd Stephens, a New York lawyer and best-selling author, and Frederick Catherwood, a London architect and renowned topographical artist. Separately, these explorers covered much of the same ground, touring Italy, Greece, Egypt, Arabia, and the Holy Land in search of ancient sites that were of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • ¡Tequila!

    Distilling the Spirit of Mexico

    by Marie Sarita Gaytán ...
    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 body shots on Cancún bars and coolly garnished margaritas on sandy beaches. Its power is equally strong within Mexico, though there the drink is ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Gospel of César Chávez

    My Faith in Action

    Edited by Mario T. Garcia ...
    Series series Celebrating Faith: Explorations in Latino Spirituality and Theology
    Once asked to explain how he had sustained himself over so many years of struggle, César Chávez responded: "I don't think I could base my will to struggle on cold economics or some political doctrine. For me, the base must be faith."In evaluating the life and struggles of César Chávez, one of the most recognized Latino leaders in the United States and the first labor leader to successfully ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Border of Death, Valley of Life

    An Immigrant Journey of Heart and Spirit

    by Daniel G. Groody, Gustavo Guteirrez ...
    Series series Celebrating Faith: Explorations in Latino Spirituality and Theology
    This book is a powerful first-hand account of religious ministry reaching out to heal the lives of desperate people who come to the United States, often illegally, seeking a better life. ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Borders of Dominicanidad

    Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction

    by Lorgia García Peña ...
    In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent, ... Read more

    $20.19 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

  • 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