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  • Passing

    Two Publics in a Mexican Border City

    by Rihan Yeh ...
    Tijuana is the largest of Mexico’s northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States’ dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest international ports of entry in the world. In Passing, Rihan Yeh probes the border’s role in shaping Mexican senses of self and collectivity. Drawing on ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Bachata and Dominican Identity / La bachata y la identidad dominicana

    by Julie A. Sellers ...
    Bachata--a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo's urban shantytowns in the 1960s--is today one of the hottest Latin genres. Still, fans and musicians have not forgotten the social stigma the genre carried for decades. This book interweaves bachata's history and development with the socio-political context of Dominican identity. The author argues that its early disfavor ... Read more

    $19.99 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

  • 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

    $21.99 USD

  • Academic Profiling

    Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap

    by Gilda L. Ochoa ...
    Today the achievement gap is hotly debated among pundits, politicians, and educators. In particular this conversation often focuses on the two fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States: Asian Americans and Latinos. In Academic Profiling, Gilda L. Ochoa addresses this so-called gap by going directly to the source. At one California public high school where the controversy is lived ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Mexican Cult of Death in Myth, Art and Literature

    by Barbara Brodman ...
    "The word death is not pronounced in New York, in Paris, in London, because it burns the lips. The Mexican, in contrast, is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it, it is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love." Thus Octavio Paz describes a cultural phenomenon that has for centuries fascinated scholars and aficionados of virtually every field ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bracero Railroaders

    The Forgotten World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. West

    by Erasmo Gamboa ...
    Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border to build and maintain railroad lines throughout the United States, particularly the West. Although both governments promised the workers adequate living arrangements and fair ... Read more

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  • Power to the Poor

    Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974

    by Gordon K. Mantler ...
    Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
    The Poor People’s Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King’s unfinished crusade became the era’s most high-profile attempt at multiracial collaboration and sheds light on the ... Read more

    $18.99 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

  • The Racial Middle

    Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide

    by Eileen O’Brien ...
    The divide over race is usually framed as one over Black and White. Sociologist Eileen O’Brien is interested in that middle terrain, what sits in the ever-increasing gray area she dubbed the racial middle.The Racial Middle, tells the story of the other racial and ethnic groups in America, mainly Latinos and Asian Americans, two of the largest and fastest-growing minorities in the United States. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Creating Aztlán

    Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island

    by Dylan A. T. Miner ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    In lowriding culture, the ride is many things—both physical and intellectual. Embraced by both Xicano and other Indigenous youth, lowriding takes something very ordinary—a car or bike—and transforms it and claims it.Using the idea that lowriding is an Indigenous way of being in the world, artist and historian Dylan A. T. Miner discusses the multiple roles that Aztlán has played at various moments ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Tropics of Desire

    Interventions from Queer Latino America

    by Jose A. Quiroga ...
    Series Book 12 - Sexual Cultures
    From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets, Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel guide of desire, directing imperial voyeurs to the exhibition of the flesh.Jose Quiroga flips the stereotype upside down: he shows how ... Read more

    $28.99 USD