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  • Puerto Rico in the American Century

    A History since 1898

    by Rafael Bernabe, César J. Ayala ...
    Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connect the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. Puerto Rico in the American Century explores Puerto Ricans in the diaspora as well as the island residents, who experience an unusual and daily conundrum: they consider themselves a distinct ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • War Against All Puerto Ricans

    Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

    by Nelson A Denis ...
    The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely."In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • When a Heart Turns Rock Solid

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    by Timothy Black ...
    A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARBased on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the ... Read more

    $10.99 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

  • Black behind the Ears

    Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

    by Ginetta E. B. Candelario ...
    Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as black ancestry has been grudgingly acknowledged. Rejecting simplistic explanations, Ginetta E. B. Candelario suggests that it is not a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Human Targets

    Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

    by Victor M. Rios ...
    At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target—flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life—putting him on the road to college ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Amigas y Amantes

    Sexually Nonconforming Latinas Negotiate Family

    by Katie L. Acosta ...
    Series series Families in Focus
    2014 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAmigas y Amantes (Friends and Lovers) explores the experiences of sexually nonconforming Latinas in the creation and maintenance of families. It is based on forty-two in-depth ethnographic interviews with women who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or queer (LBQ). Additionally, it draws from fourteen months of participant observation at LBQ Latina events that ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Plantation Church

    How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery

    by Noel Leo Erskine ...
    Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Typically, when people talk about "the Black Church" they are referring to African-American churches in the U.S., but in fact, the majority of African slaves were brought to the Caribbean. It was there, Erskine argues, that the Black ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500–2000

    Edited by Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Karen Racine ...
    Series series The Human Tradition around the World series
    Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the forced migration of Africans to Europe and across the Atlantic to the Americas, the chapters explore the slave trade, enslavement, resistance, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • 101 Amazing Pirate Facts

    by Children's History Press, Oscar Arias ...
    Children's History press is proud to present "101 Amazing Pirate Facts".  Here you will find tons of pirate trivia.  You will learn all about the life and times of pirates, buccaneers, privateers and corsairs in the age of sail. You will learn all about pirate slang, pirate weapons, and even why pirates often wore earrings! Plenty of pirate pictures and even a quiz to test your knowledge of all ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • As Flies to Whatless Boys

    A Novel

    by Robert Antoni ...
    Spanning from Victorian England to the West Indies, this is a prize-winning novel of adventure, love, comedy, and tragedy.In 1845 London, engineer, philosopher, philanthropist, and bold-faced charlatan John Adolphus Etzler, has invented machines that he thinks will transform the division of labor and free all men. He forms a collective called the Tropical Emigration Society, and recruits a variety ... Read more

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  • 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