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"At a time when politics is seemingly ruled by ideology and emotion and when immigration is one of the most contentious topics, it is more important than ever to cut through the rhetoric and highlight, in numbers, the reality of the broad spectrum of Latino life in the United States. Latinos are both the largest and fastest-growing racial/ethnic group in the country, even while many continue to fight for their status as Americans. Respected movement...
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"From a leading judicial biographer comes the untold story of Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court justice. To become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor went against the odds. Her historic appointment in 2009--made by President Obama, whose own 2008 victory appeared improbable--flowed from cultural and political changes in America that helped lift up this daughter of a Puerto Rican nurse and a factory worker. Sotomayor...
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"The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece, East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia, one of the most violent gangs in the United States. Born in the prisons of California in the late 1960s, Nuestra Familia expanded to control drug trafficking and extortion operations throughout the northern half of the state, and left a trail of bodies in its wake. Award-winning journalist...
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Winner, Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association, 2020
Outstanding Book Award, Latina/o Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2020
Since the 1950s, Latina activist Dolores Huerta has been a fervent leader and organizer in the struggle for farmworkers' rights within the Latina/o community. A cofounder of the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s alongside
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"For an undocumented immigrant, what is the true cost of the American dream? Julissa Arce shares her story in a riveting memoir. When she was 11 years old Julissa Arce left Mexico and came to the United States on a tourist visa to be reunited with her parents, who dreamed the journey would secure her a better life. When her visa expired at the age of 15, she became an undocumented immigrant. Thus began her underground existence, a decades long game...
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Soy un coronel del Ejército de Guatemala con 25 años de servicio en esa institución que me da de comer a mí y a mi familia. Soy fiel admirador del coronel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, el Soldado del Pueblo, principal ideólogo de la Revolución de Octubre de 1944, presidente de Guatemala de 1951 a 1954, traicionado por algunos oficiales de la cúpula militar de aquellos años, derrocado por orden del presidente estadounidense Dwight Eisenhower (republicano),...
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For many entrepreneurs, the American Dream remains only partially fulfilled. Unequal outcomes between the middle and lower classes, men and women, and Latino/as, whites, and blacks highlight continuing inequalities and constraints within American society. With a focus on a diverse group of Latino entrepreneurs, this book explores how class, gender, race, and ethnicity all shape Latino entrepreneurs' capacity to succeed in business in the United States....
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Catalonia: A Country Known for Its Competitive Characteristics For the past three hundred years, Catalonia has been a unique region in Europe. It is not Spanish. It is not French. It is Catalan. Its uniqueness is apparent because of its language, but it is real because of its approach to trade, business development, education, and political development. Catalonia was one of the first regions in the world to adopt a methodology aimed at boosting competitiveness...
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It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and education affect the well-being of families and individuals....
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Silencing Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Cultural Biases in Leadership is an edited volume containing eight chapters, each a real-life account from a Latina in a leadership position in the United States. These women discuss how their professional goals may conflict with their culture's expectations for them, and they describe the complexity of life choices for Latinas in the workplace, including their struggles in challenging such social assumptions....
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Anyone interested in Native American lifeways will want to pore over Notes on a Lost Flute. Hardy brings together his expertise in forestry, horticulture, and environmental science to tell us about New England when its primary inhabitants were the native Wabanaki tribes. With experience in teaching adults and children, Hardy has written this book in an entertaining and accessible style, making it of interest and useful to adults and students alike....
12) Los caminos de la música: Espacios, representaciones y prácticas musicales entre los wixáritaari
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Esta obra está dividida en tres partes. La primera se enfoca a la exposición del contexto de estudio y los conceptos teóricos empleados, la segunda, a la descripción de los diferentes géneros musicales wixáritaari y los contextos en los que tienen lugar, y la tercera, al análisis de casos y regiones en los que se interrelacionan la música, el espacio y diferentes formas de relación social.
Así, este libro ofrece un recorrido que va desde...
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El libro recoge estudios con una clara vocación interdisciplinar: la filosofía, la teología, las ciencias sociales y la literatura provocan intersecciones fecundas y también puntos de fuga. Razón, lenguaje y reconocimiento son las referencias para un posible diálogo donde el objeto de estudio siempre es América Latina, con sus múltiples potencialidades que logren siquiera visibilizar una historia transida de injusticias y desigualdad.
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Estudio sobre el pensamiento del filósofo ecuatoriano Bolívar Echeverría, quien lleva hasta sus últimas consecuencias la intención de pensar una modernidad propia en América Latina, atendiendo al proceso histórico regional, más que a las categorías universales definidas como propiamente modernas por la filosofía occidental.
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Esta obra recoge una novedosa propuesta teórica y metodológica sobre estudios de campos sociales complejos, específicamente en comunidades indígenas que han sido asimiladas por el estado. Los autores exploran aspectos como el pluralismo jurídico, la diversidad étnica y el multiculturalismo, la autodeterminación de las comunidades indígenas, y los derechos de las minorías étnicas. además, presentan un estudio de campo que pretende medir...
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Chicano. Cubano. Pachuco. Nuyorican. Puerto Rican. Boricua. Quisqueya. Tejano.
To be Latino in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has meant to fierce identification with roots, with forbears, with the language, art and food your people came here with. America is a patchwork of Hispanic sensibilities-from Puerto Rican nationalists in New York to more newly arrived Mexicans in the Rio Grande valley, that has so far resisted...
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Late Antique and Early Medieval Hispania. Landscapes without Strategy? examines the transformations of the urban and rural landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula, across one of the most turbulent periods of the history of this region, between the decay and disappearance of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the Islamic troops (c. AD 400-711). It analyzes landscape changes in a global perspective, combining both rural and urban contexts, discarding orthodox...
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"My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her daughter had the intelligence to pass a citywide test," Marta Moreno Vega writes in her essay. She knew then she was loved and valued, and she learned that to be an Afro-Puerto Rican woman meant activism was her birth right.
Hers is one of eleven essays and four poems included in this volume in which Latina women of African descent...
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Investigates race and racism in the U.S. exotic dance industry.
This groundbreaking ethnographic study of racial stratification in queer and straight strip clubs examines the lives and working conditions of Black and Latina dancers in strip clubs in New York City and Oakland, California. Though interviews with dancers, customers, managers, boucers, and other strip club employees, Siobhan Brooks explores the connections between race, desire, and commodification...
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Winner, 2020 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, given by the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner, 2020 Early-Career Book Award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education
How Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the informal street food economy
Street food markets have become wildly popular in Los Angeles-and behind the scenes, Latinx children have been instrumental...
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