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  • Tropics of Desire

    Interventions from Queer Latino America

    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • Always Running

    La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

    The award-winning memoir of life in an LA street gang from the acclaimed Chicano author and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate: "Fierce, and fearless" ( The New York Times).Luis J. Rodríguez joined his first gang at age eleven. As a teenager, he witnessed the rise of some of the most notorious cliques in Southern California. He grew up knowing only a life of violence—one that revolved around drugs, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Orange County

    A Personal History

    Bestselling author of ¡Ask a Mexican! Gustavo Arellano returns with Orange County, a seamlessly woven history of California's Orange County with Gustavo's personal narrative of growing up within its neighborhoods.The story began in 1918, when Gustavo Arellano's great-grandfather and grandfather arrived in the United States, only to be met with flying potatoes. They ran, and hid, and then went to ... Leer más

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  • References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot and Other Plays

    de 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) ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Mexican Cinema of Darkness

    A Critical Study of Six Landmark Horror and Exploitation Films, 1969-1988

    de Doyle Greene ...
    Following the national and international upheaval and tragedy in 1968, Mexican "trash cinema" began to shift away from the masked wrester genre and towards darker, more explicit films, and disturbing visions of the modern world: films which can be called "avant-exploitation." This work covers six of those films: El Topo, Mansion of Madness, Alucarda, Guyana, Crime of the Century, Birds of Prey, ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Cesar's Wars

    The Rise of America's Special Forces

    CESARS WARS is based on the true story of Roberto Csar Montiel, a Special Forces soldier and CIA operative who made American history for 35 years: The portable atomic bomb. The creation of Special Forces. The Bay of Pigs. The School of the Americas. Korea. Vietnam. Operation Phoenix. Operation Condor. The Contras. Non-official Cover. Interrogations. Torture. Through it all, his family paid the ... Leer más

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  • Hot. Passionate. and Illegal?

    Why (Almost) Everything You Thought About Latinos Just May Be True

    From Dancing With the Stars finalist Cristian de la Fuente comes a tongue-in-cheek guide to understanding Latino culture-now in paperback.As a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, international star and actor Cristián de la Fuente automatically assumed the role of the flashy Latino dancer, donning bright fuchsia costumes with his bare chest exposed. But Cristián ultimately wowed the judges and ... Leer más

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  • From South Texas to the Nation

    The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century

    de John Weber ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, ... Leer más

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  • An Organizer's Tale

    Speeches

    de Cesar Chavez ...
    The first major collection of writings by civil rights leader Cesar ChavezOne of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of nonviolence, and he effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause. Through his efforts, he helped achieve dignity, fair wages, benefits, and humane working conditions for hundreds of ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Mexico on Film

    A Critical History, 1914-2014

    de Bob Herzberg ...
    Drawing on studio files, newspaper critiques, internet sources and scholarly studies of Mexican cinema, this critical history focuses on film depictions, in Hollywood and in Mexico, of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the era of Benito Juarez. Mexico's political and military battles are discussed in detail, and contrasted with the film industry's mostly uninformative take on these events ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Chicano Movement

    Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century

    Edición de Mario T. Garcia ...
    Series series New Directions in American History
    The largest social movement by people of Mexican descent in the U.S. to date, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s linked civil rights activism with a new, assertive ethnic identity: Chicano Power! Beginning with the farmworkers' struggle led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, the Movement expanded to urban areas throughout the Southwest, Midwest and Pacific Northwest, as a generation of ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Medicinal Plants of the Borderlands

    A Bilingual Resource Guide

    In Medicinal Plants of the Borderlands: A Bilingual Resource Guide, anthropologist Dr. Antonio "Tony" Zavaleta shares medicinal plant information from his lifetime of experiences with Mexican folk healers known as curandero/a(s). Consulting with their patients, healers issue recetas, handwritten prescribed orders for medicinal plants to be filled at hierberas, herb stores. While many of the more ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD