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  • Latino Lives in America

    Making It Home

    by John A. Garcia, Gary M. Segura, Michael Jones-Correa, Rodney Hero, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Luis Ricardo Fraga ...
    Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, with increased levels of political mobilization and influence. In the timely and thoroughgoing Latino Lives in America*,* six prominent Latino scholars explore the profound implications of Latinos’ population growth and geographic dispersion for American politics and society, tracking key changes and continuities in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Brown

    The Last Discovery of America

    by Richard Rodriguez ...
    In this dazzling memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense—a look at what our country is, full of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Spain in the Southwest

    A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

    by John L. Kessell ...
    John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

    by John L. Kessell ...
    For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Focus on Hope

    Fifty Resilient Students Speak

    by Frances K. Trotman, Erik E. Morales ...
    Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The New CEOs

    Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies

    by Richard L. Zweigenhaft, G. William Domhoff ...
    The New CEOs looks at the women and people of color leading Fortune 500 companies, exploring the factors that have helped them achieve success and their impact on the business world and society more broadly. As recently as fifteen years ago, there had only been three women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and no African Americans. By now there have been more than 100 women, African American, Latino, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Outlaw Woman

    A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975, Revised Edition

    by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ...
    In 1968, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz helped found the Women’s Liberation Movement, part of what has been called the second wave of feminism in the United States. Along with a small group of dedicated women in Boston, she produced the first women’s liberation journal, No More Fun and Games.Dunbar-Ortiz was also an antiwar and anti-racist activist and organizer throughout the 1960s and early 1970s and a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Latinos

    A Biography of the People

    by Earl Shorris ...
    "Brilliant.... A loving and detailed celebration of a diverse, beautiful and often astounding people."—Laurence Gonzales, Chicago TribuneThey are sometimes called the people who died twice, once at the hands of the Spaniards and their brutal process of civilization, then at the hands of Anglos, practicing a subtler exploitation. They are Latinos, the fastest-growing minority in the United States. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Faces of Béxar

    Early San Antonio and Texas

    by Jesús F. De la Teja ...
    Winner, 2019 Summerfield G. Robert Award, sponsored by The Sons of the Republic of TexasFaces of Béxar showcases the finest work of Jesús F. de la Teja, a foremost authority on Spanish colonial Mexico and Texas through the Republic. These essays trace the arc of the author’s career over a quarter of a century. A new bibliographic essay on early San Antonio and Texas history rounds out the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Race, Women of Color, and the State University System

    Critical Reflections

    Edited by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Amarilis Hidalgo-de-Jesús ...
    Race, Women of Color, and the State University System focuses on challenges women of color experience or have experienced while teaching or pursuing administrative duties within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The book systematically examines how women of color -- administrators, faculty, and staff -- cope with the demands of the profession, their disciplines, the expectations ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Yokohama, California

    by Toshio Mori ...
    Series series Classics of Asian American Literature
    Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s.Replaces ISBN 9780295961675 ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Listening to Rosita

    The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955

    by Dr. Mary Ann Villarreal ...
    Series series Race and Culture in the American West Series
    Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by “Momo” Villarreal. It wasn’t about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal’s grandmother insisted. It was about the music—more songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks those quarters bought, the money didn’t hurt.When as an adult Villarreal began to wonder how the few ... Read more

    $17.99 USD