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  • Latina/o Studies

    by Ronald L. Mize ...
    Series series Short Introductions
    Who are Latinos? What’s the difference between Hispanic and Latino – or indeed Latina, Latina/o, Latin@, Latinx? Beyond the political rhetoric and popular culture representations, how can we explore what it means to be part of the largest minority group in the United States?This compelling book acts as an illuminating primer introducing the multidisciplinary field of Latina/o Studies. Bringing ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Consuming Mexican Labor

    From the Bracero Program to NAFTA

    by Ronald Mize, Alicia Swords ...
    Mexican migration to the United States and Canada is a highly contentious issue in the eyes of many North Americans, and every generation seems to construct the northward flow of labor as a brand new social problem. The history of Mexican labor migration to the United States, from the Bracero Program (1942-1964) to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), suggests that Mexicans have been ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Invisible Workers of the U.S.–Mexico Bracero Program

    Obreros Olvidados

    by Ronald L. Mize ...
    As the first and largest guestworker program, the U.S.–Mexico Bracero Program (1942–1964) codified the unequal relations of labor migration between the two nations. This book interrogates the articulations of race and class in the making of the Bracero Program by introducing new syntheses of sociological theories and methods to center the experiences and recollections of former Braceros and their ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered

    US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965

    by Eiichiro Azuma, David Cook-Martín, David FitzGerald, Monique Laney, Heather Lee, Kathleen López, Laura Madokoro, Ronald L Mize, Arissa H Oh, Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Lorrin Thomas, Ruth Ellen Wasem, Elliott Young ...
    Series series Studies of World Migrations
    Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States. In A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered, leading scholars of immigration explore how the political and ideological struggles of the "age of restriction"--from 1924 to 1965--paved the way for the changes to come. The essays ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    The Education of Richard Rodriguez

    by Richard Rodriguez ...
    Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.Here is the poignant journey of a “minority student” who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation ... Read more

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  • Madre

    Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun

    by Liza Bakewell ...
    Why is the word madre, "mother," so complicated in Spanish—especially in Mexico?Leaping off the page with energy, insight, and attitude, Liza Bakewell's exploration of language is anything but "just semantics." Why does me vale madre mean worthless, while ¡qué padre! means fabulous, she asks? And why do one hundred madres disappear when one padre enters the room, converting the group from madres ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Barrio Libre

    Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier

    by Gilberto Rosas ...
    The city of Nogales straddles the border running between Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. On the Mexican side, marginalized youths calling themselves Barrio Libre (Free 'Hood) employ violence, theft, and bribery to survive, often preying on undocumented migrants who navigate the city's sewer system to cross the US-Mexico border. In this book, Gilberto Rosas draws on his in-depth ethnographic research ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Border Odyssey

    Travels along the U.S./Mexico Divide

    by Charles D. Thompson ...
    This blend of travelogue and reportage from the US-Mexico border is "a n exploration of 2,000 miles of fraught, rugged and deeply contested territory" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).In a quest to capture a real-life, close-up view of the land where so many have been kicked, cussed, spit on, arrested, detained, trafficked, or killed—and the subject that has been debated for decades by ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Migrating Faith

    Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico in the Twentieth Century

    by Daniel Ramírez ...
    Daniel Ramírez’s history of twentieth-century Pentecostalism in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands begins in Los Angeles in 1906 with the eruption of the Azusa Street Revival. The Pentecostal phenomenon — characterized by ecstatic spiritual practices that included speaking in tongues, perceptions of miracles, interracial mingling, and new popular musical worship traditions from both sides of the border — ... Read more

    $18.99 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

  • Mexico on Main Street

    Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II

    by Colin Gunckel ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    In the early decades of the twentieth-century, Main Street was the heart of Los Angeles’s Mexican immigrant community. It was also the hub for an extensive, largely forgotten film culture that thrived in L.A. during the early days of Hollywood. Drawing from rare archives, including the city’s Spanish-language newspapers, Colin Gunckel vividly demonstrates how this immigrant community pioneered a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD